'Thank you all for letting us be heard'

Outgoing NFU Cymru president Aled Jones reflects on the past four years

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IKE many who have the privilege to sit and write, putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, some weeks it’s easy to know what the topic of the day is while other times there is so much to say that I don’t quite know where to begin.

Yet, sitting now in my office surrounded by shelves and draws full of files and various paperwork, I find myself with one simple message to write down; thank you.

The documents that line every crack of this office are themselves records of particular weeks, or even days, during the last four years since being elected president of NFU Cymru.

Many are related to nearly eight years’ worth of SFS design and consultation, while some closer to the top of the pile relate to our last 14 months of the Stop the Family Farm Tax campaign.