NFUS - Key Persons
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- Political Affairs Advisor
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- People & Development Manager
Andrew Connon (President) Andrew farms in partnership near Ellon in Aberdeenshire on 370 acres where the main enterprises involve finishing cattle, breeding and finishing sheep, and spring barley. He is married to, and ably assisted by, Pauline, whilst son Andrew and daughter Sarah in addition to helping at home, work on neighbouring farms. He is a long-standing member of NFU Scotland New Deer Branch and a former Branch Chair. He represented the North East Regional Board for several years, elected Vice-Chair (2017) and Chair (2020). In February 2021, Andrew was elected NFU Scotland Vice-President. He was re-elected in February 2023 and was unchallenged in February 2024.
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- Member of the Member Services Team
- Subscription Administrator
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- Communications and Social Media Assistant
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- Financial Support for Access
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- Director of Communications
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- Senior Communications and Publications Manager
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- Events and Marketing Co - Ordinator
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- Facilities Co - Ordinator
Duncan Macalister (Vice President) Duncan farms a 2000-acre mixed LFA livestock coastal farm in Glenbarr on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula. He is supported by his wife, Fiona, their four children Eilidh, Neil, Cameron and Robbie and their grandson, Finlay. The family farm 160 native cross suckler cows and 600 Lleyn cross breeding ewes. The farm has a self-contained flock and herd, buying only bulls and tups. Ninety per cent of the stock is sold deadweight, with lambs fattened on brassicas and cattle finished on silage and barley. They grow 125 acres of barley for their own consumption. The farm has a 7.5-megawatt Community Wind Farm as well as 600 acres of forestry. Duncan is the former QMS Kintyre Monitor Farmer. Within NFUS he has served two years on the Livestock Committee, eight years as Kintyre Branch chair and for the last five years as Argyll and the Isles Regional Chair with a place on the NFUS Board.
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / Ayrshire
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / Highlands
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- Member of the Member Services Team
- Member Services Manager
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Head of Member Services
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- Senior European Policy Advisor
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Policy Advisor / Orkney
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- Member of the Member Services Team
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / East Central
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Policy Advisor
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / Lothian & Borders
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / North East
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / Dumfries & Galloway
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- BAB Office & Events Manager
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Policy Advisor / Orkney
Robert Neill (Vice President) Robert is a tenant farmer on Lothian Estate in the Scottish Borders and farms with his wife, Jacqueline, and two sons Andrew and Harry. Upper Nisbet Farm along with the neighbouring farms of Ploughlands and Ormiston Mains, covers an area of 1,700 acres growing 1,000 acres of cereals. They also run 350 suckler cows and are finishing all progeny on home-grown forage and cereals. He has experience working with several organisations including Chair of the South of Scotland and Border Valuers ™ Association; Chair of the Borders Crop and Grassland Competition; Board member of RHET Scottish Borders Countryside Initiative; Chair of the Kelso & St Boswells branch of NFU Scotland. He is in his second term representing the Lothians and Borders on the NFU Scotland National Livestock Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Lothian and Borders Region of NFU Scotland.
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- Senior Policy Manager Environmental Resources
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- Member of the Member Services - Regional Team
- Regional Manager / Forth & Clyde
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- Member of the Member Services Team
- Member Services Assistant
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- Senior European Policy Advisor