Andrew Le Gallais MBE

Chairman, Jersey Milk Marketing Board

Andrew is chairman of the Jersey Milk Marketing Board and has been a member of the Board since 1987, the year he took over the ownership of the Roseland herd from his father John together with the operation of the dairy farm at Cowley Farm, Maufant, St Saviour. Since then, he has invested significantly in the business to create modern facilities for the 225 cow herd, which celebrated its centenary last year. He is immensely fortunate to be supported by his wife Loraine, together with a very loyal and professional team on the farm.

Andrew is passionate about the role of our pedigree Jersey Cow in her Island Home, exemplified not just as the source of unique quality milk to Jersey Dairy, but also as a positive contributor to the rich biodiversity of our countryside, epitomised as ‘brown cows grazing our green fields’, thus adding value to the marketing of her dairy products processed by Jersey Dairy. Above all, she continues to reign as our genuine Island icon, ‘flying the flag’ for the provenance of top quality, tangible products globally.

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Anna Woodley

Director of Business Development, Trinity Agtech

Anna is Director of Business Development at Trinity Agtech, leading the organisation’s commercial operations, ensuring that customers get the most from Trinity’s tools and services. Specialising in data and systems for agricultural businesses, she has held senior roles commercial at industry leading organisations including Agrimetrics and Proagrica. She has a degree in commercial horticulture and studied business leadership with the University of Oxford. Anna’s family farm in East Sussex.

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Belinda Bailey

Sustainable Farming Manager, Syngenta

Graduating with an BSc (Hon) in Agriculture and Land Management Belinda joined Syngenta’s legacy company, Zeneca, in 1996 and holds both her BASIS and FACTS qualifications.

She first worked in field trials, spending some time out in Argentina carrying out fungicide development trials, then moved to Technical support and on into the sales teambefore taking the position as an environmental specialist from2009.

Belinda is responsible for delivering Syngenta’s global sustainability objectives at the UK level, supporting growers and customers through managing environmental projects and training.

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Deputy Kirsten Morel

Assistant Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culturee

Elected as Deputy of St Lawrence and sworn into office on 1st June 2018.

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Christopher Savage

Associate Director, Evelyn Partners.

Chris has worked at Evelyn Partners (previously Smith & Williamson) for 20years in both accounts and audit, company secretarial and tax departments focusing on UK agricultural and equine businesses. He has advised on corporation tax, partnerships, individuals and trusts.

His expertise lies in tax efficient structures including family succession planning.

His areas of expertise include agricultural and land-based industries, capital gains tax (CGT), inheritance capital taxes (IHT) and tax efficient structures including the use of corporates.

His notable achievements include involvement in settling disputes with HMRC involving commerciality of agricultural entities, venture capital investment and the taxation of individuals as well as succession planning including utilising reliefs and tax efficient structures to minimise IHT payable for family farms.

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John Vautier

Sector Lead Rural and Marine, Department for the Economy

Born and educated in Jersey John joined the family farm in Rozel at an early age.

His farming career encompassed Jersey Royal and flower growing, fruit and vegetable retailing and wholesaling as well as aquaculture.

He has worked for the civil service since 2018 as sector lead for the rural and marine economies.

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Philip Cosgrave

Grassland Agronomist, Yara UK

Growing up on the family beef and sheep farm in Ireland, Philip completed a degree in animal science at the University of Aberdeen before returning back to Ireland to complete an MSc at UCD in Dublin. There was an opportunity to travel and with his keen interest in agriculture, he soon found himself working within the industry in Italy, New Zealand, Australia and Saudi Arabia. The experience of working in different and often harsh environments sparked an interest in crop nutrition and how healthy soils play an important role in good crops.

Since returning home Philip has worked as an agronomist and has been Yara’s grassland agronomist since 2016, having worked previously with IAS Laboratories. The concept of nutrient use efficiency is one that is key in Philip’s mind. By improving nutrient use efficiency we see benefits for the farmer and the environment. His role in Yara sees him working closely with farmers across the UK and Ireland.

Philip is a FACTS qualified advisor and also holds a Certificate in Crop Nutrition Management from Teagasc.

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