THE food, farming and forestry sectors in Wales are to get a £4m grants boost to help them become more competitive. The RDP cash will be shared equally between the Processing and Marketing Grant Scheme (PMG) and Supply …
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Welsh farmers react to Dairy Crest cut in milk price
The Farmers Union of Wales (FUW) has described the decision by milk company Dairy Crest to cut the price it pays to farmers as a ‘disgrace’. Dairy Crest is reducing the farm gate milk price by two pence per litre from 1 May.
Does chief pie taster David have the best job in Wales?
The 40-year-old ex-chef and food science graduate has an unusual – but some would say vital – role in everyday Welsh life. While many of his friends are confined to the office from nine ’til five, David can normally be found travelling the length and …
£31000 golden handshake is reasonable – Llanelli AM
The cash, which is from the public purse, is part of £845179 handed out to politicians who failed to be re-elected to the Welsh Assembly or stood down last year. The payments are known as resettlement grants, and are given to assembly members upon …
Gorseinon Food Festival 28th April 2012
Festival brings some flavour. There will, of course, be a local flavour to lots of the goods on offer, though some have been given a twist — look out for Sian Day's Baileys Welsh cakes. Sian holds the monthly food market at the G…
What’s in season?
Local, organic vegetables will reflect the growing seasons which are often overlooked now we import so much food.
Renewables in Wales worth half a billion but skills shortage hampers growth
They highlight “policy failures, or lack of political support for” onshore wind farms, solar, thermal, liquid biofuels, on-farm anaerobic digestion and biomass CHP in particular. They also argue that government policy is “polarised towards targeting …
West Wales Food Festival May 12th & 13th
West Wales Food Festival The tops chefs in Wales and the best produce in the west – just some of the highlights at this year’s festival which bears the strapline: “Growing the Future”. Alongside such star names from the culinary world as Bryn Williams and Stephen Terry, there will be a young chefs’ cookery competition; a wild food foray with Fine Pluck; set-piece debates on the big food topics of the moment; a Grow Your Own workshop and an exhibition of pinnies.
Deadly tree disease destroying swathes of Welsh woodland
“It is now spreading throughout Wales, we have already seen sites up and down Wales, predominantly in the south-west but between ourselves and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), our surveys show is has been found all over.
Outbreak of cryptosporidium associated with Welsh farm
Public Health Wales and Torfaen County Borough Council with the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency are investigating an outbreak of cryptosporidium associated with a farm in Cwmbran. Four people who have worked at Greenmeadow Community …
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