Organic Wales News & Events

Welsh egg producers have welcomed an announcement by the local Government to increase the frequency and focus of inspections at egg processing facilities to make sure illegal eggs don’t enter the food chain once the 2012 conventional cage ban comes …

“I bought organic leeks from The Farmers Garden company here in Llangernyw and slowly caramelised them with fennel seeds and butter. “I served these on top of the pizza with a spicy pork sausage meat and rocket.” He was a category winner in the Wales …

THE contribution of the Welsh-based supply chain into supermarket giant Tesco will be highlighted today. An event showing the range of food and drink supplied to the supermarket chain from producers in Wales will be held at …

The public’s taste for tender Welsh lamb, at knock down prices, is among the factors fueling the rise in illicit sales. Officers with the Welsh Food Fraud Co-ordination Unit say they are looking at more cases of illegal meat sales than ever before. …

Byron Davies, Conservative Assembly Shadow Minister for Transport, agreed, saying: “Welsh Conservatives proposed a freeze on the Severn tolls for the next four years, which would have saved Welsh motorists £3.4m in 2012 alone. …

The Wildlife Trusts Wales are consulting on the benefits of reintroducing this extinct species and will need the approval of the Welsh government and the Countryside Council for Wales. Sharon Girardi, project manager at Blaeneinion Farm, …

Carwyn Jones’ party is currently in negotiations with Plaid and the Lib Dems to get a deal on its £14bn Budget, which is due to be laid before the Assembly on November 29. With 30 of the 60 seats in the Assembly, Labour needs at least one opposition AM …

Since June 1986 when the present restrictions were imposed, farmers have had to call in officials to check their sheep for caesium, the main radioactive element, every time they want to move them off the hills for market. The blast happened on 26 April …