Farmers' Union of Wales Carmarthenshire county executive officer Meinir Bartlett has received this year's FUW/United Counties Agricultural & Hunters Society award for outstanding service to agriculture in Carmarthenshire.
Mrs Bartlett, who commenced her career in agriculture as a switchboard operator/receptionist with the then Milk Marketing Board (MMB) in Llanelli over 40 years ago, has worked at the FUW's Carmarthen office for the past 17 years.
While employed by the MMB she oversaw the introduction of the automatic recording of milk litres collected from individual farms throughout South Wales.
After the MMB ceased to exist in October 1994 she worked for its successor body, First Milk, until October 1995 when the office in Llanelli closed.
She then worked for West Wales TEC until April 1996 when she joined the FUW as administrative assistant. She was promoted to senior administrative assistant during February 2001 and to county executive officer in November 2006.
FUW president Emyr Jones said: "Mrs Bartlett has been an outstanding success in her role as county executive officer and has made a most significant contribution to agriculture in Carmarthenshire.
"She attends many ‘outside’ meetings on behalf of the industry, not just on behalf of the FUW, and she is an excellent ambassador and spokesman for agriculture."
For many years, Mrs Bartlett has organised a number of important agricultural events in the county including the FUW/HSBC Bank plc eve of the Welsh Dairy Show function and award for outstanding service to the Welsh dairy industry.
She also organised a dinner at Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli, in 2010 which raised £2,660 for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI).
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Meinir Bartlett receiving the award from FUW president Emyr Jones during yesterday’s Welsh Dairy Show.[/caption]