ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASES
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February 2009
20/02/2009 11:30
The Farmers’ Union of Wales has welcomed a European Parliament Environment Committee vote in favour of easing restrictions on the disposal of fallen stock.
20/02/2009 11:00
A Fairtrade coffee morning has been organised by the Farmers’ Union of Wales’s Anglesey branch in support of the union’s joint campaign with the Wales Fair Trade Forum (WFTF) to promote fair prices for food producers in Wales and throughout the developing world.
19/02/2009 15:47
Farmers are being warned that booking an exchange rate for converting Single Farm Payments from Euros into Sterling today for future use is a gamble which may, or may not, pay off.
13/02/2009 12:14
The Farmers’ Union of Wales today called on farmers to take full advantage of the knowledge, expertise, training and advisory services offered by the revamped Farming Connect programme.
The call was made by the union’s agricultural education and training committee, which heard from the Farming Connect delivery manager Patrick Cowdy of the practical, accessible support that Farming Connect has to offer farmers.
12/02/2009 12:12
ASSEMBLY Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones will be given a demonstration of the controversial sheep and goats’ electronic identification (EID) technology on Friday, February 13 on a farm at Saron, Llanwnda, near Caernarfon.
11/02/2009 16:55
Farmers’ Union of Wales president Gareth Vaughan today commended the decision by Pembrokeshire auctioneers J J Morris to cancel a Red Market sale at Whitland rather than give in to demands by buyers to levy farmers for BSE testing.
09/02/2009 16:54
Welsh farmers and agricultural businesses were urged today to be more energetic and "hands-on" in drawing up ideas to boost their enterprises and to make their communities better places to live in.
"In this country we are very good at looking at drawing up strategic plans but other European countries are more hands-on and really get on with carrying out projects," said Farmers’ Union of Wales vice president Glyn Roberts.
04/02/2009 16:52
The Farmers’ Union of Wales will tomorrow (Thursday, February 5) urge Westminster and Cardiff Bay politicians to do much more to encourage public bodies and ordinary consumers to buy locally produced food.
04/02/2009 16:51
The Welsh farming industry’s objections to the compulsory electronic identification (EID) of sheep were today made clear to the European Commission by Farmers’ Union of Wales hill farming committee chairman Derek Morgan.
03/02/2009 16:48
WELSH Black Cattle Society president Richard Hughes has won the FUW Anglesey branch's "Gwobr Garreg Fawr" for his contribution to agriculture and Brian and Ffiona Thomas from Beef Direct have won the "Dyfeisgarwch award" for ingenuity or initiative.
