Authors
Meg Howard
Having grown up as a city girl, Meg joined us in March 2023 as Seed Co-Ordination Supervisor and has drawn on her background in logistics, exports, and administration as well as her new experiences living out in the countryside.
Having previously completed a Level 3 Diploma In ICT Systems and Principles for IT Professionals, going on to complete a Level 3 Diploma in It Software, Web and Telecoms Professionals and various Microsoft Technology Associate assessments, she's also handy when it comes to any IT issues!
Meg is responsible for all grass and root seed administration and coordination, managing the production of grass seed mixtures, as well as handling seed enquiries from customers, the Wynnstay Sales Team and Wynnstay Retail Stores.
Imogen Wixey
Imogen joined Wynnstay on the sales desk in November 2022, she’s since moved over to the seed department as a seed sales specialist in summer 2023.
She joined Wynnstay after graduating from Newcastle University with a 2:1 studying Animal Science in 2022. Throughout the course she studied animal nutrition, forage utilization and grassland establishment and management among other topics. During the summer and winter breaks, she gained experience working on farms, including arable, poultry and dairy farms.
Her main responsibilities at Wynnstay include cereal, grass and root crop sales, dealing with customer enquiries, and aiding the Wynnstay sales team and stores.
Hannah Glyn-Jones
Hannah has been passionate about farming from young age, after watching her parents and grandparents run a dairy farm. Unfortunately, the farm lost their small herd of cows to TB but Hannah has not let that stop her from progressing in the agricultural industry.
Hannah studied Agriculture at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire, whilst relief milking on a dairy farm close to home in north Herefordshire, during college holidays and weekends. She was then successfully awarded the Richard Wigram scholarship to work on a kiwi style, 400 cow spring block dairy farm in the North Island, near Hamilton. This is where she learned a substantial amount about grazing management, and the day to day running of the farm.
For 5 years, Hannah has been in charge of rearing youngstock on a farm in South Herefordshire, giving her firsthand knowledge of the problems that may arise within calf and youngstock management, and solutions that are associated with it.
Hannah will be covering the counties of Shropshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire (South Midlands) and will be providing technical advice and promoting sales related to her clients.
Lily-Ann Pardoe
With a keen passion for farming and agriculture, Lily went to Harper Adams University to study Bioveterinary Science and graduated in 2021. During her time there, she worked on a 1000 cow dairy farm in Shropshire where she was milking and rearing calves. Since leaving Harper, Lily joined a large veterinary practice in Shropshire as a Veterinary Technician with her main interests being calf health and optimising performance.
Lily then went travelling to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Singapore. She stayed in NZ for 3 months where she assisted with a spring calving season, calf rearing and milking on a unit of 1000 Fleckveigh cattle.
Now living between North Wales and Cheshire, Lily will be covering areas in the North Midlands, Cheshire, Derbyshire Staffordshire and Lancashire. She will be providing farmers with advice on milk powders, calf feeds and other calf related products to help maximise health and performance within the herd..
Tony Heather
Tony grew up on a family Dairy Farm in Cornwall and although he has been associated with agriculture all his life, he initially started to work in engineering.
Tony returned to work in Agriculture 20 years ago and joined Wynnstay when they moved into the South West in early 2018.
Up until 2015, he had his own pedigree beef suckler herd which gave me something else to think about away from work, but now I spend my free time with family and my four dogs as well as taking a keen interest in rugby. I am also an avid follower of National Hunt Horseracing and attend meetings when I can.
Caitlin Jones
Caitlin has a strong background in agriculture, having completed a diploma in Agriculture at Coleg Meirion Dwyfor. Following her time in college, Caitlin worked on a 380 New Zealand Friesian spring calving herd where responsibilities included grazing management, milking duties, calf rearing, body condition scoring/management, heat detection for AI, breeding decisions, and pasture and nutritional allocation.
Caitlin also has first-hand experience through her family farm, where they run an autumn calving herd of 180 Holstein Friesians.
Twitter: @CaitlinMSJ
Natallia Gulbis
PlantWorks is the UK’s resource for bio-fertilsers. Products are developed by a qualified group of microbiologists and horticulturalists and through collaboration throughout the UK’s academic base.
PlantWorks is the Uk’s only mass producer of mycorrhizal fungi and is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers, based at Kent Science Park and NIAB EMR. The company currently produces in excess of 150 tonnes of high grade inoculum every year and is managed by a core group of scientists with expertise in mycology, bacteriology and crop production.
Bronwen Pihlwret
Bronwen has worked within the feed industry for over 10 years and has spent the past 6 years with QLF. Her time at QLF has allowed her to concentrate her research on the benefits of sugar nutrition in ruminants, with an aim to help farmers maximise fibre digestibility in diets. Bronwen works closely with the Wynnstay Dairy Technical Team and sales teams offering nutritional advice and support relating to liquid feeds. Bronwen holds an MSc in Ruminant Nutrition from Harper Adams University.
Jonathan Wilkinson
Jonathan is a member of the NFU Dairy Board as chair of the NFU Cymru Dairy Board.
