



Today, it is being increasingly understood that to succeed in farming it is essential to add value to products, to collaborate more closely and to market better. Graig Farm Producers has achieved all this while reducing costs and improving management. Above all, you have seen that farmers can find greater safety in numbers and are in a far better position to negotiate with the retailers as a group than as individuals.
It is little wonder that you have spread from Wales into the South West and now Scotland, and I do congratulate you and all your members on your first ten years and send you my warmest good wishes for an equally successful second decade.”