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‘Fferm Ffactor has its own Simon Cowell’

THE new judge in the S4C ‘Farmer of the Year’ series Fferm Ffactor has made such an impression that he’s already been dubbed the “Simon Cowell of the farming world”.Read

6,200 GNS FOR HEREFORD CHAMPION

Increased commercial interest in Saturday’s Hereford Sale held in the New Livestock Market saw pedigree breeders outbid for a number of the top priced bulls.Read

FUW to back cancer charity

FUW to back cancer charityRead

FOND FAREWELLS AS EA ADVISER MARTIN RETIRES

ENVIRONMENTAL advisors don’t always get an easy ride from farmers, but one has just hung up his clipboard with glowing testimonies from the North Wales agricultural industry.Read

Larch felling embargo in disease fight

AN EMBARGO on issuing licences to fell larch has been introduced by Forestry Commission Wales as part of the fight against the spread of ramorum disease.Read

Make your voice heard over CAP

THE reform of the CAP is one of the most important issues facing Wales at the moment. At present we receive more than £300 million per annum under the CAP with funds provided to the development of rural communities and businesses as well as farmers and landowners.Read

3,000 HENS PLUG GAP IN ISLAND MARKET

ENTREPRENEURS Louise McCann and Alwyn Roberts have come up with a cracking idea to ensure that residents and visitors to Anglesey are supplied with local, freshly laid, free range eggs.Read

‘Reform’ will ruin our rural communities

YESTERDAY’S proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy would “devastate European food security and destabilise Wales’ rural communities”, the Farmers’ Union of Wales has warned.Read

Fine cuts beat downturn

JUST like pubs, butchers’ shops have been vanishing from the high streets up and down Britain – a victim of the recession combined with changing fashions and the inexorable rise of the supermarket.Read

Agrisgôp put on taster events

FARMERS and foresters in North Wales are invited to attend two Agrisgôp events which will give them an insight into how this management development programme is helping make farm businesses throughout Wales more sustainable.Read

Benefits of trees

THE Woodland Trust has teamed up with the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru to stage a farm event to explain the opportunities for tree planting using funding available through the Glastir woodlands grant scheme and direct support from the Trust.Read

HOPE IN BATTLE TO HALT DECLINE

TRADITIONAL high street butcher’s shops across Britain have been closing over the last few years at the rate of between 20 and 25 a month.Read

Red meat exports are on the rise

BEEF and sheep meat exports have increased considerably in the first six months of the year, according to figures released by Hybu Cig Cymru (Meat Promotion Wales).Read

Rhug tour laid on for chefs

LORD Newborough welcomed a group of local chefs to the Rhug Estate on Monday to see his organic farm in action.Read

Welsh mayonnaise is proving a big hit

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Saving the planet – by using log boilers

THE heating system at a Denbighshire country estate has been converted to run on environmentally-friendly log boilers.Read

Chance to air views on CAP

Chance to air views on CAPRead

Welsh organic grant scheme re-opens with priority for arable

FARMERS looking to go organic can now apply for support from the Welsh Government.Read

Farming and rural news in brief

RW Winter Fair deadline nearsRead

City moneyman banks on wood fuel at family farm

AN INVESTMENT banker has teamed up with his old Oxford University pal to launch a wood fuel business in Mid Wales.Read