Recently added articles from Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales):
Borrowing increases as many feel pinch.(Features)
Nov 17, 2009 ... FARMERS are borrowing more money than ever before. The Bank of England has announced a new record for agricultural borrowing in the UK, pounds 11.7bn up to the end of September this year. This is an increase of pounds 629m compared to the same period in 2008 when ...
While lamb prices go up, the national ewe flock shrinks; Viability of red meat industry could suffer if numbers drop any further.(Features)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Steve Dub MARKET prices may have been more encouraging this year, but farmers are still reducing the size of their flocks. Exports of Welsh lamb have been behind current higher market prices. But even as demand increases, the number of breeding ewes in Wales ...
To be pork or not to be - that was the crucial question facing our Hamlet; Our columnist's prize pig may have left home, but she's still keeping track of his muddy progress: down to earth LIZ SHANKLAND.(Features)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: LIZ SHANKLAND I ALWAYS wanted more children, so maybe that's one of the reasons I get really attached to my livestock. Not all of the animals, of course - only the breeding stock. The way it works here is that I build up relationships with the ...
FARMING COMMENT.(Features)
Nov 17, 2009 ... SOME sense about livestock farming and global pollution emerged from the annual conference of Hybu Cig Cymru last week. There was a time when Defra, that go-ahead department beloved of farming and country lovers everywhere, blandly parroted an estimate that farming was ...
Societies' two new associates; country newsbulletin.(Features)
Nov 17, 2009 ... TWO farmers from West Wales have been made Associates of the Royal Agricultural Societies. Roger Evans, who farms 440 acres at Penlan Argoed, Penlan Road, Carmarthen, with a herd of 360 commercial and pedigree Holstein Friesian cows and 220 followers, has received the honour in particular ...