Agriculture

Green credentials of wool to be promoted
25/8/2010 - Members of the public at this year’s Meirionnydd County Show were urged to help get British sheep wool to the London 2012 Olympic Games, through signing a public petition to revive the fortunes and popularity of British w...

Police cuts could bring more farm crime
10/8/2010 - Farmers on Anglesey fear that they have become a source of rich pickings for thieves and it could get worse with proposed policing cuts, says Dewi Jones, NFU Cymru’s County Chairman for Anglesey. “Sadly, over the pas...

Farmers urged see that all is safely gathered in
30/7/2010 - With harvest season here, NFU Cymru is urging farmers and growers to keep safety in mind by ensuring machinery is properly maintained and operations are carried out safely. NFU Cymru’s Deputy President Stephen James s...

Farming champs for help off the farm
27/7/2010 - Gareth and Falmai Roberts, from Llannefydd, Denbigh, have won the 2010 NFU Cymru / NatWest Rural Community Champion Award. The competition, in its second year, recognises the hard work farmers do off the farm to help ...

Safeguarding 90 per cent of Welsh farm income
20/7/2010 - The Welsh Government must ensure that reform of the European Union’s agricultural support policy does not lead to a loss of income for Welsh farmers, says a report from the National Assembly’s cross-party Rural Develo...

Firms and farmers can build in the countryside
20/7/2010 - Wales is to make it easier for businesses to set up in rural areas and for farmers to build a new home on their land. Environment Minister Jane Davidson today announced new guidance for local authorities at the Royal W...

Farming the most dangerous industry
20/7/2010 - The Health and Safety Executive is using the Royal Welsh show this week to rally Welsh farmers into looking out for themselves and each other in an industry with more work-related deaths than any other sector.. “Inci...

Welsh plan to grow your own food
16/7/2010 - Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has launched an action plan encouraging more people in Wales to grow their own food whether as part of a community project or in their own gardens or allotments. The plan focuses on th...

Century-old laws hold back allotments
15/7/2010 - Legislation dating from 1908 needs to be revisited if green food production is to prosper, according to a report published today by the National Assembly’s cross party sustainability committee. The report calls on th...

A better day for Welsh badgers
14/7/2010 - Campaigners celebrating yesterday's Court of Appeal ruling against the proposed Welsh badger cull say they hope the Minister will now adopt a strategy of vaccination as a cost-effective, viable alternative to fight bovin...

Judges ban Wales badger cull
13/7/2010 - The Badger Trust today won its fight to stop a proposed pilot cull of badgers in Wales. They won their case after law lords sitting in Cardiff threw out the Welsh Assembly Government’s plans to trap and shoot badgers...

World's eyes on Wales badger cull verdict
12/7/2010 - The whole world will be watching to see if Wales wins high court permission in Cardiff this week for killing badgers “in the face of public opinion,� says an animal charity leader. Brian May, who founded the group...

Who is Wales's farming champ?
1/7/2010 - Four farmers have been shortlisted for the NFU Cymru / NatWest Welsh Rural Community Champion Award. The competition recognises the hard work farmers do off the farm to help their local town or village community. The w...

Badger cull hearing moves to Cardiff
24/6/2010 - The Lord Chief Justice has ordered that the Badger Trust’s appeal against the refusal of the High Court to grant a judicial review of the Welsh Assembly Government’s decision to kill badgers should be held in Cardif...

Badger cull objectors reject claim
15/6/2010 - The Badger Trust, which has won a temporary halt of the proposed Welsh badger cull in the High Court, today challenged a claim that bovine TB was spreading in badgers at the rate of 10 miles a year. Following the cl...

Court halts Wales badger cull
11/6/2010 - A proposed badger cull in West Wales to fight bovine TB has been halted by the Court of Appeal. Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones today expressed disappointment that the Badger Trust have been granted permission to app...

Kayaker dies after rescue off Anglesey
3/5/2010 - At 12.00 noon yesterday Holyhead Coastguard received a 999 call from an Aberffraw resident reporting that a woman had come to her house and asked that the Coastguard be alerted to a person in difficulty off Traeth Mawr. T...

Wales Badger cull to go ahead
16/4/2010 - The Welsh Assembly Government has successfully defended its decision to implement a limited badger cull in west Wales. The High Court has decided that the TB Eradication Order is lawful. Reacting to the verdict, Wales...

Wales should use uplands for food, water, play and more
9/4/2010 - New and innovative approaches are needed to ensure a prosperous future for the uplands of Wales. That is the conclusion of the Rural Development Sub-committee of the National Assembly for Wales after a seven month inq...

£3m boost for dairy farmers
6/4/2010 - The Welsh Assembly Government is investing £3.3 million into the Welsh dairy industry over the next three years to improve efficiency, sustainability and added value in the dairy supply chain. Chief beneficiaries of t...

Sex attack in Cwmbran
26/3/2010 - Police in Cwmbran are appealing for information following a sex attack on a 35-year-old woman at approximately 4.50 on Wednesday this week. She was walking to her parked car on Blenheim Road when a man began walking w...

Fight to stop Wales badger cull
1/3/2010 - An application by Badger Trust to the High Court to stop the proposed slaughter of large numbers of badgers in West Wales will be heard in Cardiff on March 22/23 by Mr Justice Jarman. The trust is appealing for donati...

Bluetongue vacination urged by Wales chief vet
23/2/2010 - While Bluetongue remains a real threat to the livestock industry, it is vitally important that all livestock farmers remain vigilant for signs of the disease and take steps to vaccinate their livestock, the Chief Veterina...

Cardiff work on saving giant pandas
18/2/2010 - A Cardiff scientist, working with a Chinese-led team of international researchers, has helped shed new light on some of the giant panda’s unusual biological traits, including its famously restricted diet. The team ha...

Badger cull not worth the cost, says report
10/2/2010 - Wales's controversial decision to cull badgers to prevent TB in cattle is unlikely to be cost-effective, says a report today. The Imperial College London and Zoological Society of London report, following cull trials ...

Arrest after Aberystwyth playgroup sex allegation
9/2/2010 - Ceredigion Local Safeguarding Children Board said this afternoon that Dyfed Powys Police has received an allegation of sexual assault at St Padarn’s Playgroup, Aberystwyth. One person has been arrested in connectio...

Wales farmers want clear advice on bovine TB
3/2/2010 - Clear and consistent advice and guidance must always be readily available to farmers to explain any changes to pre-movement testing and compensation policies. That is according to NFU Cymru in its response to the Wels...

Midwives use poetry to help women in labour
2/2/2010 - Two midwives from Abertawe Health Board have won one of the UK’s top midwifery prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Awards, the UK’s most prestigious midwifery awards in London. Maggie Davies, consu...

Wales farmers say legalise smokies
27/1/2010 - The Farmers’ Union of Wales today welcomed the Food Standards Agency’s move to push for a change in European Union (EU) law to allow production of smoked skin-on sheep meat - commonly known as "smokies" - for human co...

Welsh farming has a future, says bank boss
25/1/2010 - Farming must make sure it does not miss out on a time of potential opportunity as we start the new decade and bank borrowings continue to be available to the agricultural industry, a prominent banker told Mid-Gwynedd NFU ...

Farmers still dying in needless accidents
25/1/2010 - Farmers across Wales are being encouraged to make their New Year's resolution a promise to come home safe from the field. The Health and Safety Executive launched the next phase in its 'Make the Promise' campaign at an...

EU laws costing Welsh sheep farmers millions
15/1/2010 - An EU requirement to split lamb carcasses to remove the spinal cord from lambs over 12 months of age could be costing Welsh sheep producers as much as £8.5 million annually, says a farmers' leader. NFU Cymru Vi...

Watchdog to help farmers and shoppers
14/1/2010 - Wales Office Minister Wayne David has welcomed the announcement that the Government is to move towards the appointment of an Ombudsman to ensure free and fair competition for Welsh suppliers and consumers. A consultat...

Wales will cull badgers
13/1/2010 - A cull of badgers in Wales to prevent bovine tuberculosis was gven the go-ahead today despite legal moves to block it by the Badger Trust. Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones announced that a limited cull, alongside st...