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.
Anti-pylon campaigners battle ‘industrialisation’ of rural Wales
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 …
Farmers are ‘pushed to brink’ as milk price cut
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…
Anglesey Against Wind Turbines protest at Llanddona
Up to 300 people have turned out for a protest march against wind farms on Anglesey.
Campaign group Anglesey Against Wind Turbines says there are plans for two “industrial scale” wind turbine on the edge of the village of Llanddona.
New wind farm plans threaten Wales’ natural beauty, protestors claim
Wales will “industrialise” some of its most sensitive beauty spots with turbines dwarfing the nation’s tallest buildings if bids for 25 new wind farms are backed, say protestors. The bids are being made by green energy …
Youngsters go wild for wool
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 …
Bigger wind farm buffer zones ‘needed to protect some homes’
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.
Giant Wind Farm To Go Above Welsh Coal Seam
The progressive Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has just received Welsh government approval to build the Pen Y Cymoedd project, a 299-megawatt (MW) wind farm in South Wales — but it is partly on the site of an extensive potential coal seam that local …
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.
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 …
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