PPA Scotland – Business & Professional Magazine

The Scottish Farmer scored a hat-trick in the PPA Scotland 2006 awards by taking the best Business & Professional Magazine title for the third year in succession. Scottish Field took the editor and consumer magazine of the year titles, as well as the overall Magazine of the Year 2006 accolade.

PPA Business Magazine

The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) namedFarmers Weekly as its Business Magazine of the Year in 2006. The independent judges said Farmers Weekly had been “transformed in 2005 into an energetic market leader with a big future” and were impressed by the “radical overhaul of not just the design of the magazine but the entire thinking behind its approach to the market”. Editor Jane King commented: “We’re proud of what we’ve achieved and this award shows that our efforts have also been noticed way beyond agriculture.”

Milk Development Council Special Award

Guild member and milk technology expert Dr David Armstrong received the Milk Development Council’s special award for “an outstanding contribution to dairy development”, which results from nominations drawn from across the farming, processing, media and retail industries. Ulsterman David Armstrong was involved in the inception of the Milk Marketing Board (MMB) for Northern Ireland, became head of marketing for the MMB for England and Wales, then director of creameries, a role in which he was instrumental in helping to shape the dairy industry as we know it today. He completed his career with the MMB as director of European operations in Brussels but continued his involvement with the industry with wide-ranging interest and responsibilities within the Society of Dairy Technology.