Rural Payments and Services

Thank you very much to the team for the invitation to come back here to AgriScot. I’m delighted to be here.

I want to generally start by congratulating Gilmour, I know he’s very nervous but he’s doing a fantastic job. This is a fantastic event and he’s at the helm of it, he’s running it very well, so well done to Gilmour for taking this on and making such a good job of it.

I also want to thank Andrew for his role in NFUS as the President for his thoughts and raising the key issues that the industry has for us.

I know that we will all agree this is probably one of the highlights of the agricultural calendar – it’s a great place to do business, to learn about the latest industry developments and the equal importance of those developments, and a chance to get the off-farm and meet up with friends and colleagues.

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