A LLANLLWNI woman has been recognised for her services to agricul­ture with the Farmers’ Uni­on of Wales/United Counties Agricultural & Hunters Society award.

The award is presented to the person judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to agriculture in Carmarthenshire during the past few years.

Rev Canon Eileen Davies was born at Aberdauddwr, Llanllwni, a family farm, and after getting married to Dyfrig Davies in 1990, bec­ame a partner in the family farm at Gwndwn, Llanllwni, where she continues to farm with her husband and son, Owain.

It is a 300-acre mixed farm where they milk 75 pedigree Holstein cows under the prefix ‘Llanllwni’ and they also keep 200 commercial breeding ewes.

In 2013, Rev Canon Davies was honoured by the Royal Welsh Soci­ety by being presented with the Associate of the Royal Agricultural Society for her work supporting people working in agriculture who are in need.

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