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Tom Rawson wins Dairy UK / MDC Scholarship

Organic farmer Tom Rawson is the winner of this year’s Dairy UK / MDC Scholarship.

The Scholarship enables a young person employed in the dairy industry to attend the World Dairy Summit in Dublin (expenses paid) in order to bring back good ideas or best practice from elsewhere in the world for possible implementation in the UK dairy industry.

Tom studied at Harper Adams and then returned to the family farm in 1999 to convert it to a 250 cow organic pasture based system. From 2004 to 2006, Tom served as Chairman of the South Yorkshire Grassland Society and he is currently a regional representative on the NE NFU Dairy Board.

Amongst his other achievements, Tom won a Nuffield Scholarship in 2005 – the same year as he was the Yorkshire Agricultural Society Young Farmer of the Year - and he is a current finalist in the Dairy Farmer of the Future competition.

Tom will attend Dairy UK and MDC events to report on his trip and has submitted an article for the Milk Industry journal.