Wales

Government must intervene to prevent agriculture from collapsing under the strain of the virus or risk hampering the wider economic recovery, says Ben Lake MP for Ceredigion.

Farm groups have welcomed a series of emergency measures issued by Government to support Welsh farmers during the coronavirus outbreak.

Plaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to put on hold its plans to introduce new water regulations until the coronavirus epidemic is under control.

A Council has been blasted for its ‘heartbreaking’ decision to sell a farm to a private bidder. 

The UK Government’s bovine TB strategy is markedly different to the strategy adopted by the Welsh Government.

Bovine TB compensation paid to Welsh farmers has risen by an alarming 15 per cent in a year, according to new figures.

Fly-tipping dumped on farmland in Wales was swiftly cleared after a group of farmers employed lawyers to track down and punish the offender.

Discount retailer Aldi has says it will stock a new range of PGI Welsh Beef products across more than 50 of its stores. 

Farmers in Wales have made an impassioned plea to the Welsh Government to implement badger culling in endemic disease areas after the number of bTB infected cattle slaughtered topped its highest on record.

NFU Cymru president John Davies and deputy president Aled Jones have been re-elected to their roles following a meeting of the union’s Welsh Council.