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The gentle green of Powys is the least densely populated corner of Wales, uncluttered by anything other than small farms, a landscape that has remained unchanged for centuries. This week the National Grid will announce a new substation and its …

It found that, overall, almost a third of Welsh children were unaware of organic food and only half could identify any characteristics of food produced using organic farming and production methods. The study found that awareness of organic food was …

A team of British plant scientists has won a $10m (£6.4m) grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops.

DAIRY farmers are being pushed to the brink by the latest cuts to the price they are paid for their milk, farming leaders have warned.Four of the big processing firms that operate in Wales say they…

On the second day of his summer tour of Wales, he was shown how horses worked in confined sensitive oak woodland on his 198-acre estate at Llwynywermod in Carmarthenshire, and urged those in the forestry sector to make use of horse loggers. The Prince …

‘TOTALLY disillusioned, betrayed and let down’ is how the former chairman of Holstein UK, Tom Phillips feels following the Welsh assembly’s decision to scrap …

Farmers are also counting cost – especially the new breed of organic farmers who are unable to use conventional pesticides. Phil Thomas, of Linscombe Farm organics, near Exeter, Devon, has been particularly badly hit. The carrots and aubergines he …

Chris Jones, the farm’s animal and conservation keeper, was also showing people how to hand-shear a sheep as part of the day. He said: “Our Llanwennog sheep are a rare and old Welsh breed that we have been keeping at the farm since 1995 and this time …

Restrictions covering sheep movements after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have finally been lifted from all farms in England and Wales after 26 years.

People in Gwyddgrug, Carmarthenshire, which is near two wind farms, had complained that the noise disturbed their sleep and disrupted their everyday lives. Welsh government planning guidance says 500 metres should separate homes from wind turbines.