Archives for 2011

Visitors also packed the streets of Conwy over the weekend for the European food market and a military exhibition, as well as the 23rd annual North Wales Bluegrass Festival. Turn to page 19 for our review of this year’s event.

Stephen Carr runs an 800ha (1950-acre) sheep, arable and beef farm on the South Downs near Eastbourne in partnership with his wife, Fizz. A third of the acreage is in conversion to organic status. Do you think the Welsh cull will ever happen? …

Patrick Holden, former head of the Soil Association, is a dairy farmer in Lampeter, west Wales. For 20 years he farmed organic carrots for supermarkets, but gave up in 2007, frustrated at unreasonable demands that continually pushed up his overheads. …

Fishermen combine to try and catch more local tradeWalesOnline… parent organisation – the South & West Wales Fishing Communities (SWWFC) – in securing £122766 from the EU and Welsh Government. Alun Davies, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Fo…

Meanwhile, frustration is growing at the Welsh Assembly Government’s decision to halt a planned cull of badgers in West Wales. The heads of three regional bovine TB eradication boards in Wales have withdrawn their support in protest at the decision. …

Highlights for 2011 include Cardiff International Food and Drink Festival, A Fantasy and Fairytale picnic at Cardiff Castle supported by Brace’s Bread, Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend and Cardiff Harbour Festival. Kicking off the festivities is Touring …

The home of the Welsh Assembly cost £67 million and was officially opened by the Queen on St David’s Day 2006. Over the past five years, figures from the Assembly Commission show £29000 has been spent on electrical repairs, £25000 on fixing doors and …

NBA’s Welsh members anticipate eventual go-ahead for badger culling sometime this autumn – and wants the Welsh Assembly Government to be ready for a determined campaign against all sources of TB infection. The National Beef Association would like the …