07/12/06
Adrian Cannon, who runs farming and other enterprises on the Great
Tew Estate at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire has been named McCormick
Tractors Farm Manager of the Year in a national awards
scheme.
Adrian Cannon (centre) of Great Tew Estate, Oxfordshire, received his Farm Manager of the Year accolade from BBC news reader Fiona Bruce and Jeremy Lamb, UK sales director, McCormick Tractors International Ltd.
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In the five years since his appointment as manager, Adrian has
transformed what the award judges describe as “a somewhat
parochial business” into a leading example of a commercial
English estate, fit for 2006 and beyond.
Farming operations have been restructured to reduce costs and
improve profitability; staff members have been trained to develop
new skills; and alternative sources of income, such as quarrying,
a rally enterprise that makes use of poor land and simulated game
shoots, have been established to ensure the estate’s commercial
viability.
The Farm Manager of the Year award, sponsored by UK-based
tractor manufacturer McCormick, is one of a series of national
awards that recognise achievers in the agricultural industry and
celebrate the success stories of farming in Britain.
“We sponsored the award this year because farming should
not be afraid to trumpet its successes,” says McCormick sales
director, Jeremy Lamb. “Just as we strive for success in
producing tractors that give farmers a performance edge, so many
farmers and farm managers work hard and imaginatively to make a
successful contribution to the country’s food production
and care of the country environment.”
According to the independent judges of the Farm Manager of
the Year, Adrian Cannon has shown originality in developing
and promoting the estate’s diversification projects while
recognising the estate’s environmental responsibility and
its role in a village community. His vision makes him an ambassador
for the estate and the agricultural industry as a whole, they
say.
The awards were presented at a glittering event in London last
week hosted by the publishing house Reed Business Information.
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