Farming News - Farming

Union boss wins grassland award

FARMERS’ Union of Wales deputy president Emyr Jones and his two sons have picked up a top national grassland management accolade. Read

Market report

A look around the markets in Wales this week. Read

September is high risk for disease transmission, and tests revealed that three cattle imported from the Limoges to a farm near Ruthin, Denbighshire, were carrying the virus. It had reached the “tail-end of its infection” and there is no need to slaughter them. Read

Badger groups alleging culls ‘secrecy’

BADGER Trust Cymru has called on Elin Jones, Minister for Rural Affairs, to end what it calls the Assembly Government’s “obsessive secrecy” in planning the slaughter of Welsh badgers. Read

Farmer’s girl takes on fresh TV role

NEVER work with children or animals is the old showbiz adage but Mererid Wigley has chosen to ignore this advice for almost a decade. Read

McDonald’s finds out just why people want locally-sourced produce

SUPPORTING Welsh farmers is the main reason consumers buy local produce, according to new research. Read

Dozens of competitors plough their way through field challenges

HINDWELL and Walton Court farms, near Presteigne, was the site last weekend of the annual All Wales Ploughing Match which this year incorporated the European Vintage Ploughing Championships 2008. Read

European championship welcomed to All Wales Ploughing Match

Inn dubbed best pub in Wales for second year

A FAMILY friendly venue in Monmouthshire has been named Wales Pub of the Year – for the second year running. Read

French cattle brought to Wales have bluetongue

TWO imported cattle have tested positive for the deadly animal disease bluetongue, the Assembly Government revealed last night. Read

Bluetongue detected in Denbighshire

Two imported cattle have tested positive for Bluetongue type 8 and a further is under investigation at a premises near Rhuthin, Denbighshire. Read

Farmers risking death as they rush to beat the rain

FARMERS across Wales battling against the clock to save a delayed harvest from rotting in wet fields, are being urged to take care with machinery, after a Welsh farmer got his legs trapped in the blades of a combine harvester. Read

Market reports

DOLGELLAU - Farmers Marts (Rg Jones) Ltd (Sept 5) Cattle: OTM Lim Steers to £900; OTM Char Steers to £778, Char x Slips to £520; Hereford Cows to £560; Char x Cows to £750; WB Cows to £745; Lim Cows to £900. Read

Retiring farmers celebrate £1m sale

THE CREDIT crunch and property downturn didn’t stop a livestock rearing farm on the Welsh border from selling for almost a million pounds last week. Read

Charles call to reconnect children with food

PRINCE CHARLES believes that linking school gardens to family farms is a way of “reconnecting children to the food they eat”. Read

S4C rounds up sheepdog championships

S4C will be televising this year’s World Sheepdog Trials Championships. Read

Behind the scenes at ram sales

TWO familiar faces at the NSA Wales and Border Ram Sale have become even more well known, thanks to the Sunday teatime edition of HTV’s Down To Earth. Read

Aled takes world title with sheepdog Roy

ALED OWEN and his faithful dog, Roy, clinched the World Champion title in the World Sheepdog Trials by just one point in a nail-biting final on Sunday. Read

Scientists to pass on ‘green’ advice

REDUCING the environmental footprint while lowering costs is the theme of Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (Ibers) stand at the Dairy and Livestock Event at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, next week. Read

Community group appeals for land

WITH the price of fresh fruit and vegetables up 14.7% since January, a total of 23 people in and around Fishguard and Goodwick have put their names down on a waiting list for allotments. Read