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Gwynfe show presidents Hugh and Mary Davies flank Ian Rickman - left - and Gwynfe show chairman Steve Jones[/caption]
Farmers' Union of Wales life member John Price FRAgS, who died last summer, will be remembered every year when a cup presented by the union's county branch in his memory will be awarded at Gwynfe Show in Carmarthenshire.
Mr Price, of Ddafadfa Isaf, Gwynfe, near Llangadog, was chairman of the show when he died, aged 72, at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, on Tuesday July 6 2010.
He ran a 144-acre hill farm where he kept beef cattle and sheep and rented 66 acres of land with grazing rights on the Black Mountain.
After leaving school in 1953, he worked on the family farm with his late father until 1968 when he went to assist with the running of the Earl of Ducie's estate in South Gloucestershire. He returned to Ddafadfa Isaf in 1981.
After serving as club chairman of Gwynfe YFC in 1960 and secretary of the East Carmarthen Lamb Group, he started taking part in FUW activities in 1983 when he became Carmarthenshire county delegate on the union's national livestock, wool and marts committee and maintained regular attendance until his death.
He was the committee's chairman from 1991 to 1996, Carmarthenshire county executive committee vice chairman and chairman from 1989 to 1993 and county president from 1993 to 1995.
Between 1993 and 2004 he represented Carmarthenshire on the South Wales regional committee of the British Wool Marketing Board and served as its chairman in 1994-95. From 1991 to 2002 he was a member of the National Sheep Association's Wales committee.
He was chairman of Gwynfe Show committee twice (1997-1998 and 2003 until he died). In 2003 he was made an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies (ARAgS) for his contribution to farming and the rural community and became a Fellow in 2008.
He was made an FUW life member in 2007. During a recent function when the memorial cup was handed over, FUW county chairman Ian Rickman said John was a strong supporter of Gwynfe Show, having been chairman and a member of the committee for many years.
"For this reason the FUW decided to donate this cup in his memory to Gwynfe Show."