As the Royal Welsh Winter Fair comes to a close, signalling the beginning of the festive season where we can safely eat a mince pie without fear of judgement, it is important to reflect on the event and highlight the many challenges currently facing Wales’ rural communities and farming industries.

The 'Slimers' project investigates potential for targeting hotspot areas

Capulet beans have made their way to the canning process after being developed in university and farmer collaboration

Zanna Dennis on the LAA's new service

With continued milk price volatility resulting in more farmers looking for ways to safeguard their future, Sarah Alderton looks at milk vending as an option for farmers to get more for their milk

Ted Ogden on autumn trade trends

Organic dairy farming is unusual in Alberta, Canada, but one family from the Netherlands is making it work for them. Jane Brown finds out more

There is no escaping the weather. Like every farm in the UK, we have been battered over the past few weeks

A year ago we arrived in Exmoor with a threeweek-old baby and an 18-month-old toddler, not really knowing anyone and not quite sure what we were going to do

I remember being in Birmingham for the NFU conference in 2019 and the NFU launching, on behalf of the farming industry, a target for net zero on agriculture of 2040, 10 years sooner than the Government’s own target for the wider UK economy