Board Members

HCC is an accountable body which exists to serve the interests of the Welsh red meat industry as a whole. Members are representative of farmer and processor levy payers, and others who possess skills relevant to the future development of the organisation. 

Chair - Dai Davies

Dai Davies is a former President of NFU Cymru and farms a 520-acre dairy, beef and cereal enterprise in Carmarthenshire. Mr Davies has also held a number of other posts including Chairman of the West Carmarthenshire Welsh Language Centre and is a former President of the Whitland Young Farmers Club.

Farmer Levy Payers:

Alan Gardner

Alan Gardner is a tenant farmer keeping approx. 1,000 breeding ewes near Mold in Flintshire. He was formerly a director of HCC having served as the Farmers' Union of Wales representative and has held several positions within the Union itself.  He has also served as a member of the independent group that produced the Sustainable Farming and Environment: Action towards 2020 Report.

William Jenkins

William Jenkins is a tenant farmer based at Manmoel between the Sirhowy and Ebbw valleys in Gwent. He farms Welsh mountain ewes and a herd of Aberdeen Angus cows and also has a small Welsh cob stud. William has represented NFU members locally and nationally and, for the past 16 years, has served on the Less Favoured Areas Committee of the NFU, previously as Chairman and currently as Vice Chairman.

Graham Probert

Graham Probert farms 250 acres in South East Wales and his farm has been used as an HCC demonstration farm and more recently as an Organic Demonstration farm. He has an honours degree in Business with Economics and vast experience through his previous involvement as Chairman of Future Farmers of Wales.

John Yeomans

John Yeomans has an upland beef and sheep farm in Powys with a herd of mainly crossbred Limousin cows and Beulah ewes. His farm has been used as both a Welsh Sheep Strategy TIR farm and a Farming Connect demonstration farm and he has had a long involvement with the Farmers' Union of Wales.

Glyn Roberts

Glyn Roberts is a tenant farmer of a 100 acre hill farm belonging to the National Trust. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Farmers Union of Wales, having held numerous positions previously. In 2001 he visited New Zealand on behalf of the Welsh Sheep Strategy Scholarship to study their agricultural methods and undertaken a series of lectures on the issue.

Rhodri Wyn Evans

Rhodri Wyn Evans works on the 300 acre family farm at Llanio Fawr near Tregaron, which is a mixed farm put down to grass with a herd of dairy cows, beef cattle and breeding ewes. He has an HND and BSc degree in Agriculture and is a past Chairman of Wales Young Farmers.



Processor Levy Payers:

Evan Wyn Williams

Evan Wyn Williams is the Procurement manager for Dunbia (Wales) Ltd, responsible for livestock purchasing to cover abattoirs at Nantmel and Llanybydder. He also farms 230 acres in Montgomeryshire, with 450 hill sheep and 15 purebred limousin cows.


Co-opted Member for Small Abattoir Section:

Huw Evans

Huw Evans is the fifth generation of a traditional family butchery and currently operates a small abattoir in Tregaron servicing the needs of local butchers, retailers and private producers

Independent Members:

John Collins

John Collins graduated in politics and law from Aberystwyth University in 1977 and qualified as a solicitor in 1980. He is currently a consultant with Peter Williams and Company, Solicitors in Swansea. He sits as a Deputy District Judge of the High Court, in the Civil and Family jurisdiction. He is an Independent Member of the National Delivery Group and Chairs the Shared Services Committee for NHS Wales. He is a Non-Executive Director at Swansea Building Society and holds a number of professional conduct roles including at the General Teaching Council for Wales, Architects Registration Board and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.  

John Brereton

John Brereton is a full equity partner in a livestock auction business in Oswestry and is a qualified chartered surveyor. He has a wide experience in livestock auctioneering, estate management and rurally based general practice. He is currently a member of the Welsh Livestock Auctioneers Association, having been a past Chairman.

Professor William Haresign

Professor William Haresign is farmer's son from Lincolnshire with a BSc in Animal Production Science and a PhD in sheep reproduction. He has been Professor of Agriculture at Aberystwyth University since 1996 and he was involved in establishing the European 5b funded Welsh Sheep Strategy. He has been actively involved in a range of sheep breeding research projects designed to help the industry improve its technical efficiency, and is Deputy Director of the new IBERS