Sat-nav agony for NFU Cymru boss

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 7:09 PM | add or read comments (0)

POOR old Dai Davies. Sometimes it’s not much fun being NFU Cymru president, especially when you have to criss-cross Wales’s fabled road system to a series of pointless talking shops.

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Time to punish the milk bullies

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:46 AM | add or read comments (0)

DAIRY FARMERS have known it all along, but today’s report from the Office of Fair Trading finally provides definitive proof that the UK’s four big supermarkets colluded with milk processors to keep the price of dairy products artificially high.

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Milk shortages a sign of things to come?

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:19 AM | add or read comments (0)

WHO’D have guessed that, this time last year, dairy farmers would be squabbling over farmgate prices of 25p/litre?

Come to think of it, no one really foresaw what’s now happening to the dairy market just three months ago.

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ET plague to blame for FMD crisis - probably

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:26 AM | add or read comments (0)

WELL, now we know. The recent foot-and-mouth outbreaks were caused not by leaky pipes, careless builders or even Al Quaeda: according to Mr Orthin Jones, ancient Egyptian super-technology is the culprit.

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Stay your distance, you morons

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:23 AM | add or read comments (0)

THIS MORNING I watched a BBC reporter, microphone in hand, providing updates from the new foot-and-mouth case at Egham in Surrey.

“I’m standing next to the actual farm where the outbreak occurred,” she said breathlessly.

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Never trust a PR man with a sunny smile

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:15 PM | add or read comments (0)

PERHAPS I shouldn’t admit it, but it was the prospect of genteel glide down the Dee Valley, high above Llangollen’s slate-roof houses, that enticed me to the town’s Hot Air Balloon Festival.

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Yes, OK, I'm scared of little old ladies

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 4:42 PM | add or read comments (0)

AS RURAL Affairs Editor for the Daily Post, I’m expected to act with dignity on all occasions. Upholding standards and all that.

At last weekend’s Cerrigydrudion Show things didn’t quite go to plan.

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The market with no sales for 37 years

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 4:41 PM | add or read comments (0)

LIVESTOCK markets are back in action this week but one particular mart seems to be lagging behind the times.

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