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New rural affairs secretary calls summit over wet weather challenges
The new Wales Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs has called a meeting of farming representatives to discuss the impacts of the current prolonged wet weather. Farming unions and farmers have warned of the damaging effects of
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Powys sheep farmer benefits from improvements to sheep genetics testing
A Powys farmer says he has reaped the benefit of studying sheep genetics, as he urged other commercial sheep farms to follow his lead. Alwyn Nutting from Glascoed Farm, Aberhafesp, has praised the RamCompare progeny project as they call out for
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How intensive farming can still be on the road to net zero
A Welsh beef finisher is demonstrating that making structured progress towards net zero is achievable in an intensive farming system. Dylan Jones, who farms on Anglesey in partnership with his father, Wyn, has introduced a series of changes that