Cheshire newsagent Judy Evans, of Williams of Audlem, is the proud winner of the 2023 Farmers Weekly Awards Impartial Retailer of the Yr.
Judy’s household has been working the Audlem-based store since 1862, and has stocked Farmers Weekly journal since its first concern in 1934. An estimated 4,500 copies have handed over its counter in that point.
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“Over the many years, the farming group has all the time been fairly actually our bread and butter,” says Judy.
“We too are up early seven days per week, rain or shine, and so usually it’s a farmer, or very often a retired farmer, who’s first by means of our door within the morning.”
Judy routinely promotes Farmers Weekly to her prospects, and says that it’s the journal she recommends most to college students from close by Harper Adams College and Reaseheath Faculty.
“One factor I’ve discovered is whether or not dairy, arable, or hill farming, the necessity for good high quality and dependable info, recommendation, and typically inspiration, is all the time paramount,” she says.
“As a newsagent, we play our half in supplying farmers with Farmers Weekly to satisfy these wants.”
Judy’s dedication to supporting her farming prospects and deep understanding of the agricultural business impressed the judges.
She was invited to attend the FW Awards occasion on Thursday 5 October, the place she was offered along with her certificates and a £1,000 prize.