The preferred site for a controversial electricity substation in Powys and the route for over 100 high voltage pylons will be unveiled later.
Opponents say the substation and the pylons, to service wind farms, will disfigure the countryside.
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The preferred site for a controversial electricity substation in Powys and the route for over 100 high voltage pylons will be unveiled later.
Opponents say the substation and the pylons, to service wind farms, will disfigure the countryside.
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Organic wines produced in Europe will be able to be sold under a certified label this year, as the EU tightens rules on winemaking to rival organic bottles from the New World.
Wines made in Europe can already carry a label certifying that the wine is “made from organic grapes” but this “does not cover all winemaking practices, that means the whole refining process from the grape to the wine”, said the European Commission in a statement.
The aim is to ensure that the techniques used to produce organic wine respect common rules.
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WELSH Government Agriculture Minister, Alun Davies, has repeated his commitment to ensuring “a prosperous and sustainable future” for milk producers in Wales — to the extent of going it alone on the introduction of unilateral legislation.
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FARMERS across Wales are said to be already benefiting from Working Smarter – the Welsh Government-adopted initiative that resulted in 74 recommendations aimed at helping Welsh farming prosper.
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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 …
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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 …
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A team of British plant scientists has won a $10m (£6.4m) grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops.
It’s extremely cold here in the UK at the moment (coldest winter for over 30 years apparently), so what better way to warm yourself up than to have a lovely bowl of homemade soup!
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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…
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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 …