Agri-Business
Habitat Wales Scheme to be offered in 2025 as part of supports pre-SFS
The Habitat Wales Scheme will be offered in 2025, with all eligible individual farmers able to apply, and is one...
Wales
Rural Life
NFU Cymru to hold specialist seminars at Royal Welsh Show
The National Farmers’ Union of Wales (NFU Cymru) is set to hold a number of specialist seminars at this year’s...
Agri-Business
Welsh shearer sets new record after shearing 791 sheep in 9 hours
Welsh sheep shearer Meirion Evans has been successful in his record-breaking sheep shearing attempt after shearing 791 sheep across nine...
Forestry
'No prior training' needed for Welsh forestry training programme
Tilhill Forestry has said no prior training or experience is required to apply for its Forestry Skills Training Programme, which...
Agri-Business
Brecon, Wales: Fire service rescues horse from bog
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service crew has recovered a horse from a boggy patch of field in...
Agri Politics
SFS: Welsh govt must continue to listen to farmers - FUW
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has said the Welsh government must continue to listen to the views of Welsh...
Agri-Business
SFS to commence in 2026 with 'preparatory phase' next year
Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, has said the government intends for the Sustainable Farming...
N.Ireland
Welsh vets to take first-ever strike action at a private practice
Nearly 100 vets working in South Wales are set to take the UK’s first-ever strike action at a private veterinary...
Agri-Business
Pembrokeshire Creamery opening creates 80 new jobs
Pembrokeshire Creamery has officially opened, creating 80 new jobs and expecting to bottle more than a million litres of milk...
Sheep
Flintshire: Sheep involved in dog attack found with 'appalling injuries'
North Wales Police’s rural crime team has said an ewe and a lamb were found with “appalling injuries and bitemarks...
Sheep
Welsh shearer to attempt to shear sheep for 9 hours to break record
A Welsh sheep shearer is set to make a record-breaking attempt to shear sheep across nine hours later this month....
Government
FUW has 'ongoing concerns' around Welsh BVD legislation
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has said it has “ongoing concerns” regarding the support available for a successful rollout...
Agri-Business
Welsh family farm prosecuted following pollution of 12km of waterways
A family farm business at Rhydsais Farm in Talgarreg, Ceredigion, has been prosecuted after a slurry store collapse resulted in...
Government
Further changes made to bovine TB testing in Wales
Further changes have been made to bovine tuberculosis (bTB) testing in Wales by Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural...
Rural Life
NFU Cymru donates over 100 pairs of children's wellies to charity
The National Farmers’ Union of Wales (NFU Cymru) has donated over 100 pairs of children’s wellies to the Stephens and...
Other
Welsh livestock market fined £75k after man trampled by a cow
A livestock market in Wales has been fined £75,000 after a man was trampled by a cow that had escaped,...
Rural Life
Brecon: Firefighters rescue lamb stuck 6ft deep in ditch
Firefighters have rescued a lamb that became stuck in a 6ft deep ditch in Llanfaes, Brecon, Mid and West Wales...
Beef
Beef market could have 'greater stability' in 2025 - HCC
Hybu Cig Cymru-Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has said the beef market could witness “greater stability” in 2025 following the easing...
