AHDB Pork Board
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Robert Beckett
- Name
- Robert Beckett
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Producer
- Introduction
Yorkshire pig producer Robert Beckett runs a multisite indoor breed-to-finish pig business. He is the son of a Shropshire farmer, where he started off as a stockman, progressing through all levels of management to his current position of Joint Managing Director.
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Rick Buckle
- Name
- Rick Buckle
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Producer
- Introduction
Rick Buckle returned to the family farm in 1992 after completing an NDA at Bishop Burton College of Agriculture. The family partnership owns, rents, and contract farms more than 5,000 acres of arable land in East Yorkshire. He runs the pig enterprise on the farm which consists of a 1050 sow farrow to finish indoor unit.
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Adam Cheale
- Name
- Adam Cheale
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Processor
- Introduction
Adam Cheale is a director of the family firm Cheale Meats and is also on the board of the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers. He joined the firm doing the engineering before moving on to IT then day-to-day running. He is now responsible for the sale of the sows and boars processed by the firm.
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William de Klein
- Name
- William de Klein
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Processor
- Introduction
William de Klein studied Meat Science and Agricultural Economics at Wageningen Agricultural University and completed an MBA with TIAS Business School.
As son of a Dutch farm manager, he feels closely aligned with all aspects of pig production. He started his career 12 years ago as a meat quality researcher in a Dutch pig abattoir. He has been Site Director of the Malton Bacon Factory for the last 3 years. William currently is a Board member of the Karro Food Group.
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Chris Aldersley
- Name
- Chris Aldersley
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Processor
- Introduction
Chris was born and bred in Yorkshire and began working in a butchers at the age of 9, starting a lifelong love of meat. His commitment to the pork industry started in 1998 when he joined Cranswick PLC and he became Chief Operating Officer in 2015. His role is all about managing the operation of the business from farm to fork and he is a familiar face within the industry. He is currently Chair of the BDCI and also a Fellow of the Institute of Meat.
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Robert Mutimer
- Name
- Robert Mortimer
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Producer
- Introduction
Robert Mutimer and his wife Helen currently run 750 outdoor sows with indoor straw based finishing, producing pigs for the Waitrose supply chain. They have developed Swannington Farm to Fork, a wholesale and retail butchery with business with two shops and 200 wholesale customers in Norfolk and North Suffolk.
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Mark Haighton
- Name
- Mark Haighton
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Tulip Ltd
- Introduction
Mark is Pig Supply Chain Director of Tulip Ltd where he leads a team that works closely with all elements of the British pigmeat supply chain including farmers, hauliers, abattoirs, customers and external bodies such as the Food Standards Agency.
He has worked in the UK pig processing sector since 1998 when he started at the Geo Adams & Sons Ltd abattoir in Spalding initially as a livestock buyer before the company was bought out by Tulip.
Since 2010 he has also sat on the Red Tractor Pig Sector board helping to represent the interests of the UK processor and producer in the ever-changing world of legislative and consumer requirements.
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Mike Sheldon
- Name
- Mike Sheldon
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Chairman
- Introduction
Mike Sheldon worked with PIC before setting up Greenway Farms, a 1200 sow unit producing parent boars and grandparent gilts, which he sold in 2014. He is a former member of the BPEX board and the founding Chief Executive of the NPA. From 2012 he has been the chairman of the Pig Sector Board of Red Tractor Assurance and also chairs the Red Tractor Marketing Committee.
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Robert Shepherd
- Name
- Robert Shepherd
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Producer
- Introduction
After leaving school Robert served as an officer in the Light Infantry.
He studied agriculture at The Royal Agricultural College before coming home to a mixed farm on the Hampshire/Dorset border. The farm runs 600ha of arable, a 300 cow suckler herd (selling progeny finished) and 2000 outdoor sows (selling half the progeny finished). Robert has served on various boards over the years and is involved in running the IAM Leadership Development Course.
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Simon Watchorn
- Name
- Simon Watchorn
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Producer
- Introduction
Suffolk pig producer Simon Watchorn runs a 600-sow outdoor breed-to-finish unit and has been involved in the industry for the last 20 years. Simon, is also a director of Thames Valley Cambac, a former member of the NPA producer group and also sat on the Real Welfare review group.
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Iain Wylie
- Name
- Iain Wylie
- Organisation
- AHDB Pork Board
- Job Title
- Independent
- Introduction
Iain graduated from London University, Wye College with a degree in Horticulture and Business Management. He then had a career in retail working for Sainsbury’s, Homebase and the garden centre sector, most recently as managing director of Grosvenor Garden Centre. He served on national committees including the Horticultural Trades Association Council and, recently, the Garden Industry Marketing Board.