THE President of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society for 2006 is Mr. Hywel Lloyd, chairman of Lloyds Animal Feeds. He has succeeded Mr. Dai Lewis, the Llandysul auctioneer and estate agent . The newly chosen president-elect for 2007 - when Pembrokeshire is to be the featured county - is Mr. Edward Howell Perkins, OBE, formerly of Llysygwyn, Bethesda, Narberth, and now of Penysgwarne, Goodwick - the family home which he has farmed for almost 20 years. Career wise, Edward followed his father, the late Arthur Perkins, into the estate agency business and qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1966. After working with the firm of John Francis & Son at Carmarthen for nine years, he returned to his family's Pembrokeshire roots and worked from the Haverfordwest office, and continued to do so when it became part of the huge Halifax group. Since 1999 he has run his own business, still from the Haverfordwest office. He has also successfully run the rugged 295-acre Penysgwarne Farm, on the Pencaer peninsula, which was purchased by his great-grandfather, Edward Howell Perkins, in 1878. The greater part of the land is south facing and there are a number of rocky outcrops - some being of pre-Cambrian origin considered to date back 500 million years. Edward is married to Eireen - heavily involved with the County's WI and secretary of the Holstein (UK) South Wales branch. The couple have two children: Jonathan, who is a bio-chemist with a Ph.D working in Canada, and Kathryn, who has obtained her hons. degree in rural estate management and is employed in Shropshire. As 'featured county', the Pembrokeshire committee of the RWAS, under its chairman, Mr. Roger Perkins, Dinas Island, will shortly be mounting a major fund-raising campaign.