AN EXCELLENT line up of speakers will be addressing the Annual NFU Cymru Poultry Conference on Friday, 30 January 2015 at the NFU Cymru HQ, Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd. Those present will...
TRAIDCRAFT will be launching a Fair Necessities Appeal, and will be their biggest ever fund raising appeal. The appeal aimsto help smallholder farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries escape poverty and build...
FARMERS’ UNION OF WALES president Emyr Jones has highlighted the need for political leaders to come up with strategies which deal with the severe collapse in farmgate milk prices and the...
BRITAIN has the land, technology and entrepreneurial flair to lead the world in food and farming, Elizabeth Truss said today. Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, the Environment Secretary said the £100 billion industry...
BOTH NFU Cymru and the FUW are urging First Milk to meet with their milk suppliers as a matter of priority. After faceto- face talks with the dairy cooperative, NFU President...
MILK price volatility, ongoing uncertainty around the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the future shape of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Wales were discussed when Ceredigion NFU Cymru officeholders met...
FROM January 1 fishermen targeting pelagic quota species such as mackerel and herring will have to land all the quota fish they catch, helping bring an end to the wasteful practice...
The year, 2014, ended as it started with uncertainty within the farming industry as to how the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) will be distributed across Wales from 2015. Throughout the entire...
DR CHRISTIANNE GLOSSOP, Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales has reminded Welsh farmers that attempts to eradicate TB in Wales rely on collective responsibility and that we must maintain a zero tolerance approach...
WELSH Government finance and business minister Jane Hutt’s announcement that Aberystwyth University’s Innovation and Enterprise Campus (AIEC) will be the first multi-million pound project to receive substantial backing through the new £2 billion...
CLA CYMRU warns that only landowners or tenants will be able to claim Basic Payment payments under the new payment scheme With the new Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) coming into effect...
A £500 top-up to the Farmers’ Union of Wales Somerset floods appeal fund has been handed over by Gamallt Concrete Ltd, Cardigan. Llew Rees, the owner of Gamallt Concrete, kindly agreed to...