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21/11/2007 - Farming Family of the Year
House of Commons
It’s official we are the Farming Family of the year!
The award was presented by Farm business and Farm Life magazines and sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers and given at a prestigious ceremony of leading food and farming figures at the House of Commons on Friday the 16th November.
Since Andrew and Hilary Julian moved their family onto the island 20 years ago, they have established one of the country’s leading fresh flower businesses.
More than 75,000 presentation boxes of narcissi are posted from the island every year to destinations across the country.
“What so impressed the judges about the Julian family was how they have built up such a thriving and important business over such a short time,” says Farm Business editor Cedric Porter.
“As well involving members of the family, the business also employs 20 people which is very significant in a community the size of St Martins. The company has also successfully highlighted that its flowers are very environmentally sound being grown in a climate that allows them to flourish outside and not having to be flown thousands of miles to shops.
“Family farms are the backbone of British farming and families such as the Julians who can identify a market, supply it well and focus on marketing have a very strong future ahead of them.”
The Farm Business Food and Farming Industry Awards are now in their fifth year. They are Britain’s leading national food and farming business awards, celebrating excellence in all parts of the food and farming industry.
Farm Business magazine has established itself as the leading pioneering and professional farming magazine. It firmly believes in a strong future for British farming and seeks to identify solutions to challenges the industry faces, while highlighting the growing number of opportunities. Its sister magazine Farm Life highlights farms that are rejuvenating the countryside through commitment to quality, welfare and the environment. It also gives help and advice on setting up new farming and other countryside enterprises.
The Farming Family of the year Award was sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers. It is the UK’s largest farmer-owned agricultural supply co-op. Through its depots, stores and website its sells tens of thousands of products to hundreds of thousands of customer every year. In its South west stores it is having great success selling local produce under the regional Taste of the West name.
The other winners of The Farm Business Food and Farming Awards were:
Farm Business of the Year Award, sponsored by Genus
Winner: Bowes of Norfolk
Highly Commended: Sentry Farming
Progressive Farmer of the Year, sponsored by Agrovista
Winner: Freddie de Lisle, Quenby stilton
Highly Commended Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Black Farmer sausages
Rural Enterprise of the Year, sponsored by Savills
Rural Business Development of the Year : Wiggly Wigglers, eco-friendly retailer
Rural Regeneration Award: Deepdale of Norfolk, holiday and retail village
Farming Family of the Year, sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers
Winner: The Julian Family, Churchtown Farm, Isles of Scilly, flower growers
Highly Commended: James Hague, Hampshire dairy producer and milk round
Agronomist of the Year, sponsored by Syngenta
Winner: Peter Dews of Agrovista
Highly Commended: James Cheeseman of Hutchinsons
Food Chain Marketing Award, sponsored by Elanco Animal Health
Winner: Debbie & Andrews sausages
Highly Commended: The British Asparagus Group
Women in Farming Award, sponsored by Marks & Spencer
Winner: Christine Tacon, General Manager Co-operative Farms
Arable Food Chain Marketing Award
Winner: Scholes, vegetable growers
Highly Commended: Co-operative Farms
Personality of the Year, sponsored by McDonald’s
Winner: Peter Kendall, President of the NFU
Special commendation: Roy Heath, Cornwall Food Programme
Retailer of the year, sponsored by Massey Ferguson and AGCO Finance
Winner, non-multiple retailer: Cotswold Farm Fayre
Winner, multiple retailer: Mole Valley Farmers
For more information call Cedric Porter, editor of Farm Business
01892 861770
www.farmbusiness.cc
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