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PEMBROKESHIRE FARMER RAISES OVER £4,000 FROM PLOUGHING MARATHON

18/05/2012 14:08

During this weekend's Royal Welsh Smallholder & Garden Festival (May 19 and 20), farmer Brian Thomas will hand over more than £4,000 to Farmers' Union of Wales president Emyr Jones' chosen charity Cancer Research Wales which he raised by completing a ploughing marathon on his Pembrokeshire farm.

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FUW TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF FARMING CO-OPERATION

15/05/2012 14:23

A four-man panel of speakers with wide-ranging interests has been assembled by the Farmers' Union of Wales for a "Question Time" session on "The Importance of Co-operation in Welsh Agriculture" during the union's Carmarthenshire county branch annual general meeting this month.

FUW URGES PEMBROKESHIRE PUPILS TO START SNAPPING

15/05/2012 13:33

The arrival of longer daylight hours coupled with improved weather conditions has prompted the organisers of a Farmers' Union of Wales photographic competition for Pembrokeshire school pupils to get their cameras out and start snapping.

FUW WARNS MILLIONS OF POUNDS AT STAKE OVER UNCHECKED FARM DATA

14/05/2012 15:41

The Farmers' Union of Wales today warned that farmers who fail to check their Single Application Form (SAF) statements for errors risk losing tens of thousands of pounds.

FUW WELCOMES QUEEN'S SPEECH SUPERMARKET OMBUDSMAN PROMISE

09/05/2012 12:12

The Farmers' Union of Wales today urged the Coalition Government "not to drag its heels" over the Queen's Speech promise to introduce a Groceries Adjudicator Bill which would spark the appointment of a supermarket ombudsman.

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LAUNCH OF FUW INSURANCE SMALLHOLDERS' POLICY

08/05/2012 14:58

The Farmers' Union of Wales insurance arm FUW Insurance is launching an insurance package for smallholders to coincide with this month's Royal Welsh Spring Festival at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.

CHIEF SCIENTIST’S RESIGNATION POINTS TO ‘SCANDALOUS’ GOVERNMENT NEGLIGENCE – FUW

30/04/2012 12:27

The resignation of the Welsh Government’s acting Chief Scientist Professor Chris Pollock over the decision not to undertake a badger cull in north Pembrokeshire highlights the flawed nature of its decision to pursue vaccination in the area rather than a cull and underlines “scandalous” government negligence, says the Farmers’ Union of Wales.

MILK PRICE REDUCTION A DISGRACE, SAYS FUW

27/04/2012 15:32

The news that Dairy Crest is to reduce its farm gate milk prices by 2 pence per litre (ppl) to its unaligned producers is a disgrace and highlights the weakness of milk contracts in general, the Farmers' Union of Wales dairy and milk committee chairman Dei Davies said today.