A MESSAGE FROM HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES
On Graig Producers' 10th Anniversary
November 2006

“I did just want to write and congratulate you and the members of Graig Farm Producers on reaching your tenth anniversary. You have been pioneers in collaborative organic marketing for beef and sheep and I have watched your development over the last decade with considerable admiration.

Today, it is being increasingly understood that to succeed in farming it is essential to add value to products, to collaborate more closely and to market better. Graig Farm Producers has achieved all this while reducing costs and improving management. Above all, you have seen that farmers can find greater safety in numbers and are in a far better position to negotiate with the retailers as a group than as individuals.

It is little wonder that you have spread from Wales into the South West and now Scotland, and I do congratulate you and all your members on your first ten years and send you my warmest good wishes for an equally successful second decade.”

HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES ON HIS VISIT TO GRAIG FARM July 2000