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Aled has previously held a variety of positions across the industry, including holding the post of Chairman of milk recording company Cattle Information Services (CIS) for seven years and being a trustee of Holstein UK for eight years.

Huw worked for many years in public and private sector leisure management and as a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education before entering politics.

In February 2002 he was elected as the Labour MP for Ogmore. He was duly elected to the Assembly (now Senedd Cymru) in 2016 representing Ogmore.

Huw was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs in March 2024 and was later appointed Deputy First Minister in September, in addition to retaining responsibility for Climate Change and Rural Affairs matters.

He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. His latest book is Feeding Britain (Pelican pb 2021). He’s spent the last two years researching the state of UK civil food resilience for the National Preparedness Commission.

Katie is one of the founding Directors of Veg Power and helped co-found the School Holiday Enrichment Programme, Food and Fun. She’s also a member of the Conscious Food Systems Alliance. Katie has a Masters in Nutrition and a Masters in Food Policy and has worked in both the private and public sectors. 

Susan has a long-standing interest in the translation of scientific evidence into policy. She was the Science Advisor to the Government Office for Science Foresight report on obesity in 2007 and an advisor to Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy (2020-2021).

She has previously chaired the cross-government expert advisory group on obesity (2007–2011), the Department of Health responsibility deal food network (2011–2015) and public health advisory committees for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2013-2018). She was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to public health.

Prior to her current role, Shelagh held several senior executive positions across the UK dairy industry, including at the farmer-owned co-operative Milk Link (which merged with Arla in 2012) and a family-owned business, Medina Dairy. She originally trained as an animal nutritionist and worked for more than 10 years in the agricultural supply sector.

Following a PhD in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin in 2011, Dr Wall held postdoctoral research posts as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Wall’s research focuses on the intersection of electoral politics and digital technologies, and he has published over 25 original research articles in globally respected peer-reviewed venues.

John joined from Kerry Group (an Irish multinational dairy, ingredients and taste business) where he held senior roles in commercial and strategy development across their European business. Prior to this, John worked in specialist dairy sales, retail meat procurement, and agri-food public communications. He is an Agricultural Science graduate, and hails from southeast of Ireland (Waterford).

The farm is home to milking cows, sheep, beef cattle and around 120 acres of arable.  Abi is a co-founder of Cows on Tour, an Open Farm Sunday host and a former NFU Cymru Wales Woman Farmer of the Year. In 2019 she was honoured by the Queen with an MBE for her services to agriculture.