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Over 15,600 farm businesses in Wales to receive BPS payments tomorrow

October 14, 2021

Over 15,600 farm businesses across Wales will receive a share of over £159.6m in Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) Advance payments tomorrow, Friday, October…

Countryfile presenter headlining Taste of Wales next month

September 30, 2021

Rural Life

Wales’ largest international food and drink event, BlasCymru (Taste of Wales), is set to return next month, on October 27 and 28. The…

Over £66 million given to extend Welsh environmental farming schemes

September 21, 2021

Agri Politics

More than £66 million is being made available by the Welsh government to continue delivering positive environmental outcomes for Wales, a key part…

New vision to help increase innovative food growing in Wales

September 7, 2021

Agri-Business

A new vision to increase high tech food production in Wales which also has a positive impact on climate change has been launched…

5 in hospital after Welsh meat-processing factory ‘leak’

September 6, 2021

Other

Five people have been taken to hospital after a suspected chemical leak at a meat-processing factory in Wales. Fire crews and paramedics were…

‘World record’: Sheepdog pup sells for £10,600 in Wales

July 9, 2021

Agri-Business

Welsh auctioneer Farmers Marts is claiming a “world record” has been set at its July timed internet auction of working sheepdogs – which…

White Paper ‘fails to address our concerns’ about the future of farm tenants – TFA Cymru

December 16, 2020

Agri Politics

The Tenant Farmers Association in Wales (TFA Cymru) has said that the Welsh government has failed to provide adequate safeguards for farm tenants…

Long-term vision for sustainable Welsh agriculture unveiled

December 16, 2020

Agri Politics

A 15 to 20-year vision to create a sustainable agricultural sector in Wales for future generations has today (Wednesday, December 16) been unveiled…

Welsh forest locations earmarked as ‘exemplar sites’

November 4, 2020

Forestry

Locations across Wales have been earmarked as “exemplar sites” for the National Forest – a connected network of forests which will span the…

New Science and Innovation strategy for forestry published

October 28, 2020

Forestry

A new Science and Innovation strategy for forestry in Great Britain to support the sector’s long-term future has today (Wednesday, October 28) been…

Police seize ‘large cultivation’ of cannabis plants from farm

September 21, 2020

Rural Life

Police have seized 100 cannabis plants after finding a large cultivation on a farm in Wales in recent days. Dyfed-Powys Police officers attended…

Broadband funding welcomed, but it must reach UK’s most rural communities

August 10, 2020

Rural Life

The Farmers’ Union of Wales has welcomed plans to bring full-fibre broadband to an additional three million homes and businesses in some of…

‘This is private land’: Farmer confronts 4X4 over trespassing

July 8, 2020

Rural Life

The frustration of dealing with trespassers on private land was voiced recently by well-known Welsh farmer and media personality, Gareth Wyn Jones, following…

Free BVD testing to be extended until 2021 in Wales

July 7, 2020

Agri-Business

Free BVD (Bovine viral diarrhoea) testing for cattle farmers in Wales has been extended until March 31, 2021. The testing, which is provided…

North Wales creamery invests £600,000 in low-emission fleet

June 29, 2020

Agri-Business

A North Wales creamery has invested £600,000 in new low-emission lorries in a bid to reduce the firm’s carbon footprint. South Caernarfon Creameries…

Major Welsh food wholesaler Castell Howell issues job loss warning

June 24, 2020

Agri-Business

One of Wales’ biggest food wholesalers, Castell Howell, has warned it is facing the possibility of making major redundancies because of the drop…

Union warns plans to push forward all-Wales NVZ will only add to Covid-19 burden

April 10, 2020

Agri-Business

Farmers in Wales say they are “astonished” that controversial draft regulations for an all-Wales Nitrate Vulnerable Zone have been pushed forward while the…

Emergency measures to support Welsh farmers during Covid-19 unveiled

April 2, 2020

Agri-Business

A series of emergency measures to support Welsh farmers during the Covid-19 outbreak has been announced by Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural…

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