The Scottish Egg Quality Awards (SEQA) are run in partnership by leading feed manufacturer ForFarmers and the Scottish Rural University College (SRUC) and celebrates the best of the Scottish egg industry. Despite the unfortunate cancellation of the awards themselves due to COVID-19, there is still one award which the team were delighted to be able to continue with: The 2020 ‘John Cessford SEQA Young Person of the Year Award’.
After an impressive round of applications, ForFarmers is delighted to announce that Paul Alexander, from JSR Services, is the winner of this year’s ‘John Cessford SEQA Young Person of the Year Award’.
Paul has been involved within the poultry industry his whole life, including weekend industry work, before joining PD Hook as a general worker later on.
When JSR took over the poultry unit Paul worked on for the past 8 years they immediately saw Paul’s potential, promoting him to ‘Rearing Farm Manager’ a role he has held for the last 5 years. Paul’s role includes shed preparation prior to the arrival of day old chick, right through to point of lay including vaccinations, health monitoring, weekly bodyweight monitoring and feed ordering. Paul has since been promoted to ‘General Manager’ at JSR.
Paul was nominated by JSR Managing Director, John Retson who comments ‘Paul is likable and trustworthy; I am lucky to be able to work with him. Paul adapts well with change and embraces modern technology. He pays impeccable attention to detail producing excellent vaccination results and low mortality rates. He is always willing to help whatever time or day of the week and is thoroughly deserving of this award’.