Presentation given by Derek Shaw (Farmer) at the AFBI Beef Conference 2014.
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Derek Shaw is involved in the international Agricultural Food Sector. He farms at Gilford and in the 1970s started a large beef fattening enterprise fattening 2500 to 3000 cattle per year. Derek is also a director and shareholder of M P Evans Group PLC a UK plantation company with palm oil interests in Indonesia. He is chairman of Elmfield Energy Services Ltd a company founded by his son which has forestry interest in the USA supplying wood products to the pulp and bio energy sector.