Poultry profile: Tom Wornham and Gary Ford

In March, Hertfordshire broiler producer Tom Wornham was elected chairman of the NFU’s poultry board. We sat down with him, and the NFU’s chief poultry adviser Gary Ford, to talk about the union’s priorities. Defra recently lifted its avian influenza Prevention Zone, which legally required poultry producers to maintain the highest biosecurity levels. How do you think that policy shaped up? Gary Ford: While we didn’t have any commercial cases this winter, we had 20 wild bird findings –