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Swallows have returned to the farmyard, migrating across hemispheres and traversing vast oceans to nest with us for the summer.
Swallows have returned to the farmyard, migrating across hemispheres and traversing vast oceans to nest with us for the summer.
Reducing milking frequency to once a day can cut the workload for dairy farmers but a new report commissioned in Wales by Farming Connect has shown that for some businesses profitability will take a hit if they switch from a twice-a-day system.
Farmers in Pembrokeshire have breathed a sigh of relief at the news that Wales’ new farm subsidy scheme, which will pay farmers to deliver so called ‘public goods’, is on hold for a year.
A willingness to trial techniques even when they risk failure has helped a Welsh upland farm successfully integrate regenerative practices compatible with its own sheep farming system.
With every farm certified by Red Tractor now required to have a written health and safety policy, DEBBIE JAMES gets expert advice on what that document should include.
Agricultural protests are as old as farming itself, and farmers can be a powerful lobby when they come together.
Wales’ new rural affairs minister has hinted that unpopular plans to make every farmer plant trees on their land to achieve 10% cover before they can access support payments could be revised.
I challenge anyone to not raise a smile as they watch cows being turned into fields for the first time after a winter sheltering indoors.
The deadly Schmallenberg virus has claimed large number of lambs in some Pembrokeshire flocks, with one farmer losing nearly half of all the progeny produced by his commercial ewes.
Farming is not an occupation for the faint hearted; even the most stoical farmers I have the good fortune to know are struggling in this thoroughly depressing spring.
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