Wales

The new officeholder team at NFU Cymru have urged Plaid Cymru to keep pushing Labour on bovine TB policy, despite the deal the two parties have reached to work together.

A London-based private equity firm has been forced to meet farmers and residents after its plans to blanket plant farmland in Wales’ historic Cwrt-y-cadno Valley were met with outrage

NFU Cymru has launched a search for enthusiastic young farmers keen to have their say on the future of farming in Wales

Government retirement schemes which only compensate for monetary loss from farming are doomed to fail, new research commissioned by Welsh Ministers has found.

Cefin Campbell MS, Plaid Cymru’s Spokesperson for Agriculture and Rural Affairs writes.

The Welsh Conservatives have urged Ministers to ban foreign multinationals from ‘greenwashing’ their emissions by using public money to plant trees.

Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru have agreed to work together on a number of key rural issues, including the Government’s controversial water regulations, as part of a landmark Co-operation Agreement published this week.

The Welsh Government has been accused of seeking to slash compensation payouts to farmers whose cattle go down with bovine TB.

The Welsh Government has been urged to review the cap on compensation for animals slaughtered under the bovine TB eradication programme.

The Welsh Government has set out plans to introduce its new Sustainable Farming Scheme in January 2025.