YOUNG Mauchline farmer, Andrew Taylor, beat fourteen other entrants from universities and colleges around Britain to win the Dairy Student of the Year competition.
Andrew was one of four to reach the London final this past Friday.
Andrew, from Lochhill Farm, is an agriculture student at the Riverside campus of Scotland’s Rural College and is in the second year of his degree course.
It began back in February at Reaseheath College in Cheshire where candidates completed a first round of interviews with three judges. Each student was given the costings , trading and balance sheets of a Shropshire dairy farm to study and were quizzed on the problems it faced.
Andrew was presented with a £1,000 cash prize while Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) received £500 towards a dairying educational project.
On receiving his award Andrew said: “I am absolutely ecstatic and honoured to receive this award. It has provided me with great self-recognition which will help to open doors when I eventually graduate.
“I am particularly keen to gain experience travelling and working with herds in Canada and the US, as well as in the UK before I eventually return home to progress and expand the family herd.” Andrew is the second student from the Ayr campus of SRUC to win the award. In 2012 Grace Smith, a final year Animal Science student from Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire, took the title.
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