The NFU has won at the prestigious CBI Trade Association Best Practice Awards – the industry’s equivalent of the Oscars.At a glittering ceremony held last night (Thursday) at London’s Park Lane InterContinental hotel, the organisation was named Trade Association of the Year 2008 as well as picking up awards for best Environment Initiative and Magazine of the Year for British Farmer and Grower.In their summary, the judges said the NFU was a worthy recipient of the award after rising to the challenges of last summer’s flooding, avian flu, an outbreak of foot and mouth and the arrival of bluetongue in superb style, reinventing itself by driving its roots down into its core constituency. The judges said the NFU responded with leadership to crisis after crisis, both as a voice and lobbyist for the industry and in very practical ways as well.
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