The Task Force is made up of the board members of Cornwall Agricultural Council. It is their role to provide strategic guidance to the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Objective One Programme and represent the views of the Cornish Agricultural, Horticultural, Food and land based industries. Within this role they steer the work of the Agricultural Development Team, ensure projects fit the County Strategy and inform the funding bodies about the Cornish Industry.

Cornwall Agricultural Council

Peter Hardaker
Chairman, Immediate Past Chief Executive, Cornwall Farmers Ltd

Catherine Mead
Vice - Chair, Dairy farmer and marketing director of Lynher Dairies

David Rodda
Secretary & Co-ordinator, Co-ordinator of the Cornwall Agricultural Development Team based at Cornwall Enterprise

Steve Parsons
Principal of Duchy College

Andrew May
Flower farmer and director of Mainland Marketing, Isles of Scilly

Phil Ugalde
Proper Cornish Limited

Martin Stanbury
Arable and dairy farmer, previously NFU County Chair

John Forster
Farm Business Adviser for Penwith

Jonny Alford
Chief Land Agent, Cornwall County Council, Planning, Transportation & Estates

Fred Hinchliffe
Grassland Society

It is important to note that none of the members represent specific sectors but were appointed for the breadth of their knowledge. They are non-sectoral and aim to represent the views of the whole industry as identified through consultation when developing the Agricultural Task Force Strategy.

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Cornwall Agricultural Council Development Team

David Rodda
Senior Agricultural Co-ordinator
The Old Dry
Station Road
Pool
Redruth
TR15 3QG
Tel: 01209 616093
david.rodda@cornwallenterprise.co.uk

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Strategies

Updated strategy PDF(136 kb)
Original strategy PDF (138 kb)
Red Meat strategy PDF (162 kb)

On 7 September 2001 South West Quality Meat received £20,000 of Objective One funding to undertake a study in how to make Cornwall's red meat sector more competitive. Now completed, the study identifies ways to improve the position of the whole sector, an area that has been highlighted for investment in the Objective One Agricultural Task Force Strategy.

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