Welsh Government director general for sustainable futures Gareth Jones will be the guest speaker at the FUW’s annual general meeting on Monday June 16 at 10am at the MedRus Conference Centre, Aberystwyth...
NFU CYMRU members are throwing open their farm gates next month as they join this year’s Open Farm Sunday founded by LEAF. Thousands of people are expected at to attend...
SEED industry experts and farming leaders from across Europe have met to develop ideas on how best to help shape the European seed industry and ensure it can play its part...
Farmers who were affected by flooding can now apply for grants of up to £35,000 to help get their land back into production as quickly as possible. Farmers can now...
Who will win the title of NFU Cymru / Principality Building Society Wales Woman Farmer of the Year and the £500 prize money? This is the question on everyone’s lips as...
NFU CYMRU Livestock Board members have called on the rest of the supply chain to restore confidence and stability to the beef price following the dramatic fall in farmgate price over...
THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally withdrawn its proposal for a Soil Framework Directive following years of NFU Cymru lobbying through its Brussels office. The ill-fated draft Directive was first published in 2006...
ORGANISED by the Radnor Feature County committee, this year’s Royal Welsh Grassland and Alternative Energy Event will take place on Thursday 5 June at Llanbadarn Fynydd, Llandrindod Wells, Powys. With over 100...
THE FARMERS’ Union of Wales’ “Help Cut Food Miles…Buy The Welsh One” message already promoted in a variety of events at the Welsh Assembly, House of Lords and European Parliament has cropped...
THE MINISTER for Natural Resources, Alun Davies has set out how a £6m Nature Fund will be used to help halt the decline of wildlife and habitats in Wales. The...
RESPONDING to questions in the House of Commons this week, Wales Office Minister and Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb confirmed that Ministers will look at easing a bureaucratic issue affecting the sale of...
THE WELSH Government’s Rural Payments Wales (RPW) Online Single Application process has been described as ‘an overwhelming success’ following the May 15 deadline for Single Application forms and called for the approach taken...