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Rupert Moon receives his gold medal from FUW president Gareth Vaughan with First Minister Carwyn Jones.[/caption]
Ex-Welsh rugby international Rupert Moon has won a Farmers' Union of Wales gold medal in recognition of his help in arranging parades of Welsh Black bulls around the hallowed turfs of Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Llanelli's former Stradey Park.
Moon received the medal, one of a limited edition struck to mark the FUW's 50th anniversary in 2005, for his enthusiastic assistance when past Welsh Black Cattle Society Trefor Jones and his son Huw led young bulls around Stradey Park before the Scarlets’ Heineken Cup matches against Perpignan in 2003 - when the French banned imports of UK beef due to the foot and mouth outbreak - and the Millennium Stadium before the 2006 Wales-New Zealand match.
FUW president Gareth Vaughan said Moon, former Welsh Rugby Union head of group commercial and business development and now the Scarlets' commercial director, was a "very good friend" of the FUW.
The former Llanelli and Wales scrum-half was master of ceremonies at a recent FUW-organised fund-raising dinner to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI).
Mr Vaughan presented a second gold medal to FUW member Bryn Davies, of Llansawel, near Llandeilo, a RABI trustee for many years.
"Bryn worked incredibly hard for RABI and helped hundreds of beneficiaries during that time, travelling to all parts of Wales," said Mr Vaughan.