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Buchanan enters UFU leadership race
A second candidate has emerged in the race to be deputy president of the UFU, with the union’s Co Antrim committee understood to have nominated Dungiven hill sheep and dairy farmer Ian Buchanan at their meeting last week.
He is set to go against Markethill dairy farmer William Irvine, in what is expected to be a tight race at the organisation’s AGM scheduled for the end of April.
Buchanan has stood before, and is well known in UFU circles having chaired the UFU hill farming committee. He has also served on the AFBI board, and is the immediate past chair of British Wool.
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