Countryside and farming news, farming in Wales

WELSH farmers are calling for an informed debate over the use of genetically modified crops so they can compete fairly in the global marketplace. Read

Rising costs and store wars put farms at risk, warns NFU

FARMING leaders say farmers could be driven out of business if a new supermarket price war follows massive rises in farm costs. Read

Farming columnists

Dai kept his worms in a little cotton bag around his neck

THE Scriptures tell us to lift up our eyes to the hills for our comfort – and as with other things in the Great Book, it is good advice. Read

Climate change – is it really that dire?

CLIMATE change is typically discussed in terms of foreboding and predictions of catastrophe: droughts, famines, hurricanes and floods – even plagues of jellyfish! Read

Country pursuits

129 bass caught by sea anglers

The MIB Sea Angling Club sponsored by McKenzie's Interior Builders sailed out of Penarth Marina at 3am on July 27 aboard the Kobe, Benjoma and Lea James to ride the tide down to Nash Point. Read

Holgan Farm catches cut

THE strong wind made fishing difficult and cut catches when Aberglais AC fished the Tench Lake at Holgan Farm. Read

Countryside News

Preparation the key as Jenkins revels in organiser and TV roles

IT is a racing certainty that Britain’s biggest and most valuable harness race meeting – the £70,000-plus Tregaron Festival – will run like clockwork next weekend. It always does. Read

Extra safeguards will protect Ratty and Co for generations

HELP is at hand for Ratty. The misnamed water vole from the children’s classic Wind in the Willows is one of five new species that has been given extra protection in Wales. Read

Country & Farming Blogs

culling squirrels
BLOG: WalesOnline: upcountry
To some people they are cuddly creatures that can become tame enough to nibble endearingly out of your hand....Read
badgers
BLOG: WalesOnline: upcountry
They certainly know how to badger a girl, both sides in the argument over Mr Brock's involvement in the epidemic of bovine tuberculosis that is sweeping through parts of rural Wales....Read
double standards
BLOG: WalesOnline: upcountry
It's not what you spend, it's who you are that matters when it comes to accounting for taxpayers' money....Read
one union
BLOG: WalesOnline: upcountry
The National Farmers Union celebrates its centenary this year and in Wales that will mean a black tie dinner in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on November 26 followed by a centenary conference the following day....Read
let them eat money
BLOG: WalesOnline: upcountry
It might seem the fairest thing in the world to make farmers pay towards the cost of clearing up animal and bird disease like foot-and-mouth, bluetongue, avian flu, swine fever and bovine tuberculosis....Read
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