EMYR JONES RE-ELECTED AS FUW DEPUTY PRESIDENT

EMYR JONES was re-elected deputy president of the Farmers' Union of Wales during a meeting of the union's grand council in Aberystwyth today (Thursday, June 5).

A former vice president of the union, Mr Jones was brought up on the family farm Rhiwaedog, Rhosygwaliau, Bala, which extends to 356 acres and carries 60 Welsh Black suckler cows and 1,200 sheep.

He is married to Eluned and their daughter Elen lives with her husband and two children in Anglesey. Both sons, Aled and Dylan, work at home on the family farm in Bala.

Mr Jones was the union's Meirionnydd county chairman between 1998-2000 and for many years represented the county branch on the central hill farming and marginal land committee.

He was elected to represent north Wales on the union's central finance and organisation committee in June 2000 and was elected one of the union's three vice presidents in June 2002.

He is a prominent member of a number of organisations including the Welsh Mountain Sheep Society, the Welsh Black Cattle Society, and is a director of the Meirionnydd County Show.

His contribution to agriculture was recognised in 1995 when he became an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Society and received the honour of Fellow in 2001.

His farm has won several prizes over the years including awards by the Grassland Society, the Royal Welsh Show farm buildings and facilities award and the Snowdonia National Park Society farming and landscape award.

Mr Jones is the FUW representative on the new campaign group Fairness for Farmers in Europe.

The family has hosted several farm visits over the years by various organisations and societies. Mr Jones also devotes a great deal of time to community life, being a former community council chairman.

He is involved with his local show at Llangower and is also a deacon at his local chapel. He is passionately committed to the principles on which the FUW was established.