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February 28, 2007
Who won the bragging rights at the FUW's rural forum?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 4:24 PM | add or read comments (0)
IT promised to be an intriguing battle of conflicting political ideologies. The FUW’s big rural forum at Coleg Llysfasi was a fascinating event, but if we were expecting political fireworks, we were sadly disappointed.
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February 28, 2007
Are wind turbines sending sheep bonkers?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:01 AM | add or read comments (0)
ANIMAL rights campaigner Judi Hewitt cannot be faulted for the zeal with which she pursues animal welfares issues.
However her latest claims have raised one or two eyebrows: that hill sheep are being driven to distraction by the sound of wind turbines.
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February 22, 2007
Clever farmers made of the white stuff
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:47 PM | add or read comments (0)
WELL fancy that! Farmers who stuck photos of themselves on milk bottles have been inundated with offers of dates.
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February 21, 2007
No news today - apart from Anglesey's new milk bottling plant
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 4:51 PM | add or read comments (0)
MUST bite my tongue. Must be professional. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. Keep repeating to myself: “It’s not the sub’s fault, it’s not the sub’s fault.”
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February 20, 2007
The truth about Tir Mynydd
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:10 PM | add or read comments (0)
AN intriguing poker game of political brinkmanship is being played out in Cardiff Bay: at stake is not just the future of Tir Mynydd hill subsidies but also 1,000 on-going Tir Gofal applications, not to mention political reputations.
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February 20, 2007
Foot-and-mouth: Cock-up or conspiracy?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 12:47 PM | add or read comments (0)
AT this time of year it has become traditional to review a landmark in recent UK rural history: the outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD).
For all its impact at the time, the 2001 FMD disaster has faded from collective memories. I was only reminded of it at the weekend when the BBC launched its new Conspiracy Files series: the first programme dealt with 9/11, and ensuing episodes will look at the Oklahoma bombing and the death of government scientist David Kelly.
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February 19, 2007
Will a Yank living in west Wales be the next blogging superstar?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 7:13 PM | add or read comments (0)
FUNNY business, blogging. Why do people do it? Are they in need of an audience or just a creative outlet?
Or are they in it just for the money?
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February 16, 2007
Who'll win the rural vote? And do you care?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:05 PM | add or read comments (0)
STILL no news on Sid, our crocked ram. We’ve been told to brace ourselves for bads news: we fully expect him to return from the veterinary hospital in a box.
Fingers crossed for a miracle.
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February 15, 2007
Milk bags 2 - the rivals
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:57 PM | add or read comments (0)
WELL, don’t you know, no sooner has one North Wales dairy launched its milk-in-a-bag concept, than another comes along with an identifical offering.
Yup, like busses.
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February 15, 2007
Great idea - but will "milk in a bag" succeed?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 12:54 PM | add or read comments (1)
IT’S one of those ideas that seems so blindingly obvious, it makes you wonder why it hasn’t been done before.
In today’s Farm & Country, Tomlinson’s Dairy, Coedpoeth, exclusively reveals how it plans to sell milk in bags.
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February 15, 2007
Double standards pervade intensive poultry production
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 10:34 AM | add or read comments (0)
RECEIVED an interesting letter from Dr Chris Ashton, a retired teacher and waterfowl smallholder from Hope, near Welshpool.
She’s been a long-term advocate of vaccination policies, and is on a DEFRA bird flu stakeholders’ group. So her views on the government’s handling of the Bernard Matthews outbreak in Suffolk need to be taken seriously.
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February 13, 2007
Is it time we challenged climate change theories?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:39 PM | add or read comments (0)
COULDN’T help but smile at climate change comments made by the hapless Rhodri Morgan .
Addressing businessmen at the Senedd yesterday, the First Minister said global warming would “hardly be unhelpful” to the Welsh economy as it would give Wales a Spanish or Californian climate.
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February 13, 2007
Goodbye Sid, you were a champion ram
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:37 PM | add or read comments (0)
IT’S not looking good. Sid, our champion Jacob ram, appears destined for the great sheep pen in the sky.
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February 13, 2007
Snow lovers deserve a good sledging
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:35 PM | add or read comments (0)
LIKE countless others, we took advantage of the recent snow to go sledging in a nearby farm field.
Great fun was had by all. Except for the local farmer, I imagine.
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February 7, 2007
Out of Africa - how the Welsh Blacks helped a little boy from Ghana
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 5:09 PM | add or read comments (0)
EIGHT years ago staff in the Welsh Black Cattle Society offices in Caernarfon received a begging letter from a little African village boy in Ghana, West Africa.
How did he get their address, they wondered. And why them?
This is his remarkable story.
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February 5, 2007
Is this your dream job?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:03 PM | add or read comments (0)
ADVERT in today’s Daily Post: National Trust is looking for a farm manager for its Hafod-y-Llan estate, Nant Gwynant.
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February 5, 2007
Last stand in bloody battle for the Welsh uplands
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:45 PM | add or read comments (0)
IN 48 hours time a group of AMs will decide the future of rural Wales. An exaggeration? Possibly, but make no bones about it, decisions made by Assembly politicians on Wednesday will have far-reaching implications for the Welsh uplands.
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