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:
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.
In 2011, he was awarded an ‘Associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies' for facilitating knowledge transfer within the agricultural industry.
Glyn Roberts
Glyn Roberts farms 400 acres in Ysbyty Ifan, Snowdonia as a tenant of the National Trust and is the current Deputy President of the Farmers' Union of Wales.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers farms in Anglesey in partnership with his parents. The farm comprises of 1,700 head of breeding ewes and 300 head of beef cattle, and is involved in numerous projects including being a Farming Connect Demonstration Farm.
Mr Rogers is an active member of the Anglesey Grassland Society and of the National Farmers Union and is a company director involved in the development of a number of renewable energy projects.
Richard Tudor
Richard Tudor farms a 700 acre upland beef and sheep farm at Llysun, Llanerfyl. The farm has a 1500 strong Mule, Texel and Aberdale flock producing lambs for Waitrose. The 140 Saler and Simmental suckler herd produce young store bulls and finished cattle. He places great emphasis on meat production from grass.
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.
Processor Levy Payers:
Prys Morgan
Prys Morgan is the Sheep Procurement Controller with VION Food Group, responsible for purchasing lambs for the company's red meat business unit throughout Britain. The company supplies major retailers both in the UK and abroad.
Mr Morgan works closely with all elements of the red meat industry to help improve efficiency and to meet the specific requirements of their customers. He has a joint honours degree in Agriculture and Bio-chemistry, and an MSc in Rural Resource Management from Bangor University. Mr Morgan previously worked for the Meat and Livestock Commission as Industry Development Manager until 2003, when he took up the same role with the newly-formed HCC until 2008.
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.
Independent Members:
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.
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.
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.
Gwynn Angell Jones
Gwynn Angell Jones lives in Y Felinheli, Caernarfon and founded his company, GwynnAngell and Associates, in 1998. He undertakes consultancy roles across a range of business and charitable sectors.
He worked with the Wales Tourist Board for 10 years in Machynlleth and Swansea before becoming the first head of operations for Inter Hotels UK, tasked with restructuring a worldwide marketing and purchasing consortium. He later joined Hamdden Ltd as Managing Director before moving to run Cardiff (university) Union Services.
Mr Jones worked as Director for Wales of Ontrac Marketing, and later became the first head of marketing and supporter development for the National Trust in Wales. He has served on the Wales Government Ministerial advisory committee on tourism matters and the Wales Government Ministerial advisory committee on food strategy. He was chair of the Phab Wales charity for eight years and currently runs a charity raising funds for a hospital in Jowai in North East India.