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Nearly 170 farmers across the South West have already been trained and accredited to work with schools during the academic Year of Food and Farming, which draws to a close next July, and beyond.

This week Peter Kendall, president of the NFU which has been heavily involved in facilitating the Year via its backing of the FACE (Farming and Countryside Education) initiative, will be in Cornwall visiting three of the key players involved.

He will also be meeting with groups of NFU members and potential members for talks over their current concerns, high amongst which will be the strategy for dealing with the midge-born and potentially devastating livestock disease bluetongue and the critical need to move forward with action to combat bovine tuberculosis.

Mr Kendall will be at the Carruan visitor centre at Polzeath in North Cornwall, for a breakfast meeting and at Woodland Valley Farm, conference, training and education centre at Ladock, near Truro from noon until 2 pm. Both proprietors, Clare Parnell at Carruan and Chris Jones at Woodland Valley, have undertaken the CEVAS (Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme) training provided by FACE. He will later go to the Duchy College at Stoke Climsland in East Cornwall, also involved in the Year of Food and Farming, for a further meeting.

South West NFU director Melanie Hall says: "I am delighted Peter is coming down to see what's been achieved through the hard work of Paul Hillard, our regional FACE co-ordinator, and his colleagues at the organisation FarmLink. He will also be persuading non NFU members that we are the only show in town when it comes to business advice and effective representation in a far from farmer-friendly world."

2:55pm Monday 17th March 2008

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