Focus on Farm SQP of the year winner Jessica Frost

What animal health issues are your customers most concerned about, and how does that compare with your view about the major challenges?

There are several animal health concerns that both our farmer members and I share. Availability of Large Animal vets in East Anglia is quickly becoming a w...

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Downland member Taylor Farm Supplies, celebrates its 10th anniversary - meet SQPs Pete Taylor & Holly Lockley

Taylor Farm Supplies (TFS), based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. We meet TFS AMTRA RAMAs, Holly Lockley and owner Pete Taylor, who provide an insight into their business and working closely with livestock producers to give truste...

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Matthew Busby - Business Development Manager, Mole Country Stores, Buckinghamshire

Having grown up on the family dairy and pig farm in rural Berkshire, and later an arable Read More

Mark Matthews - Animal Health Sales Specialist at Wynnstay, Midlands

Wynnstay has a dedicated team of RAMAs, fully trained and legally qualified through AMTRA, (Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority) to advise, prescribe and supply certain veterinary medicines. We meet Mark Matthews, animal health sal...

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Emily Martin - Agricultural Trade Manager at Wynnstay's Cardigan Store

From an organic smallholding in Aberystwyth to vast cattle stations in Australia, it has been an exciting journey that has led to Emily Martin’s current role as depot manager and agricultural trade manager at Wynnstay’s Cardigan store.

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Andrew Dobinson - Business Development Manager, Mole Country Stores, County Durham

In the latest instalment of our regular feature, the Mole Valley Newsletter continues to introduce you to our team of AMTRA Registered Animal Medicines Advisors (RAMAs), our professionally trained colleagues working with you to help improve the ...

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Crystal Brick - Wynnstay, Llanidloes

From her upbringing growing up on the family sheep and beef farm in the hills of Radnorshire in mid-Wales, Crystal has always had a well-honed passion and interest in animal health, inspiring her to further her learning and develop a rewarding c...

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Jess Hansford, Store Supervisor at Wynnstay

Having moved to Ruthin from Dorset with her mother and their then two ponies some 16 years ago, Jess has since developed a life-long love of ponies, as well as dogs and cats.

That love of animals led her to studying...

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Ceri Jones - Store Manager at Wynnstay's Llanfair Caereinion

Ceri started her Wynnstay journey back in 2012, initially in a part-time capacity at weekends and during holidays, while she completed an extended diploma in Agriculture at Llysfasi College. Having completed her diploma, Ceri was then offered a full-time role initially as st...

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Josie Towers - Store Manager at Wynnstay country store in Kendal, Cumbria

Josie has been with Wynnstay since November 2013, initially working part-time as she completed the second of two degrees gained at Myerscough College, all within a three-year period.

Having completed her studies for ...

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Tony Morris - Animal Health Sales Specialist in the West Midlands

Tony joined Wynnstay twelve years ago initially in a sales position, adding the RAMA qualification within a year and BASIS the following year in order to enable greater understanding and further capabilities to his role. Prior to this, Tony ran a small dairy farm.

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Ellie Szczerba - Shop Floor Supervisor, Mole Country Stores, Andover

Ellie joined the team at Mole Country Stores in Andover some three years ago, having honed her passion for animals initially at a smallholding connected to a village pub she had been working at from college.

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Sandy Robertson

Sandy Robertson, the principal of Equine Endo, provides a mobile clinic that truly offers a scientific approach to equine healthcare. But how did she get started, what drives her and what are the rewarding experiences that make it all worthwh...

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Sammy Mitchell - Mole Valley Farmers branch, Holsworthy, Devon

Sammy Mitchell, farm sales co-ordinator at our Mole Valley Farmers branch in Holsworthy, Devon, gives us a snapshot of a typical day, and her advice on fly control as we head further into the summer months.

Sammy’s Mole Valley journe...

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Alex Bradley - TFM Countrystore, Whisby, Lincolnshire

Alex Bradley, store supervisor at the independent TFM Countrystore in Whisby, Lincolnshire, followed a slightly less conventional route to her role as a RAMA, having been a primary school teacher for ten years prior to taking up her current position.

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Cara Baillie - Loch Levan Practice, Kincross

Cara Baillie, part of the nursing and client care team at Loch Leven Equine Practice in Kinross, has been elected on to the AMTRA council as the new RAMA representative for the equine sector.

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Dawn Prime - East Anglia

As we have adjusted to life in lockdown, there is one constant comfort that many are relying on, the unconditional love and companionship of pets, at a time when most of us are spending more time than ever at home, in ‘their domain’!

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Dom Whiten

For somebody used to being on the ‘front-line’, the lockdown period has presented a whole new set of challenges for national-award-winning and Essex-based animal medicines advisor, Dom Whiten. For her, and her fellow animal health professionals, the health and welfare of our local pets a...

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Sarah Brooks

A Welsh hill farmer’s daughter from the Brecon Beacons, Sarah Brooks has always had a great affinity for the countryside and a passion for rural affairs, and this has translated into a successful career that sees her at the forefront of animal healthcare and helping farmers achieve bette...

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Stella Kendall - Store Manger at Pets at Home, York

In a career that has gone full-circle, with plenty of milestones along the way, the latest highlight for Stella Kendall, manager of Pets at Home’s York store, has seen her elected on to the council of the regulatory body for animal medicines adv...

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Sammy Stenton – Carrs Billington, North Yorkshire

Sammy Stenton followed quite a different career path before joining Carrs Billington in 2017, becoming an AMTRA SQP by December 2018. Sammy was named as the top R-SQP student of the year (all-species), during the AMTRA awards at the AHDA Conference 2019.

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Elizabeth Barrett – Mole Country Stores, Fauld, Burton on Trent

Elizabeth Barrett is store supervisor at Mole Country Stores in Fauld, Burton on Trent. She also won the Outstanding Customer Service Award in the National SQP Awards 2018. Here, she tells us her inspiring story of how from adversity, she has developed a successful career doi...

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