Highland Perthshire farmer has been elected as the 63rd president of the country’s largest agriculture union.Martin Kennedy, who has been a vice president at the National Farmers’ Union of Scotland (NFUS) since 2017, now takes over the organisation’s top role.Martin, who runs Lurgan Farm just a few miles north of Aberfeldy, was elected unopposed in last Friday’s vote at the NFUS’s virtual council meeting in Glasgow.Beggar kicked supermarket manager when asked to movePensioner admits making knife threat to wifeHe is a tenant farmer in Highland Perthshire and farms with his wife Jane and three daughters, Jillian, Katrina and Yvonne.They have 600 ewes and 60 cows on the farm rising from 800ft to over 2500ft.Martin served two years as Highland.
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