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Nigel Williams MS on food security and rural heritage
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (462+ words) When you stand on a Welsh farm at five o’clock in the morning, watching the mist lift from the fields while much of the country is still asleep, you get a clear sense of what truly matters. I know that…...
How eggs cracked a profitability challenge for upland farm
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1154+ words) Diversifying into egg production has helped one family secure the future of their Welsh upland farm and create a business capable of supporting the next generation. Gareth and Rhianon Jones had been running a 70-cow suckler herd and 500 ewes at…...
BC Eyes Controversial Changes to Agricultural Land Rules
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (1719+ words) You made it all the way to the bottom of the article. That makes you some serious Tyee Builder material. What’s a Tyee Builder, you ask? It’s a person, a reader, who has decided they want to be part of…...
Less red tape, more pesticides? Bee careful what you ‘simplify’
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (815+ words) Welcome to the newsletter of Follow the Money's EU desk, with insights from our EU specialists, news from the Brussels bubble, and the latest on our investigations! Welcome back to Bureau Brussels – your weekly deep dive into the power plays,…...
Farmers call for urgent overhaul of slurry spreading rules
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (400+ words) Farmers are calling for urgent changes to rules on when they can spread slurry, warning that current restrictions are unworkable. The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) says the fixed autumn closed period for slurry and poultry manure spreading does not…...
NCGA’s Matt Frostic: ‘We Can’t Take Another Year’ Without an Updated Farm Bill
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (634+ words) With the current Farm Bill set to expire Sept. 30, corn growers are heading back to Capitol Hill with a blunt message for lawmakers: another year of delay is becoming a financial burden farmers simply cannot afford. Matt Frostic, a Michigan…...
"Give It Back If You Won't Farm It!"... Government to Acquire and Lease Farmland to Youths at Low Prices
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (434+ words) In the government's first-ever nationwide comprehensive farmland survey, about 2.84 million parcels, or 27% of the surveyed targets, were classified as suspected violations of the Farmland Act. The government plans to finalize legal violations through in-depth investigations by the end of the…...
Ernst Roets is Doing a Good Thing on Farm Murders
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (421+ words) – September 14, 2026 The project is being driven by Ernst Roets and his new Lex Libertas think tank. Roets is a hardliner and former deputy CEO of AfriForum. He is perhaps the most hardline Afrikaner leader South Africa has produced since the…...
Listen to The Country: Federated Farmers confidence survey with president Colin Hurst
4+ hour ago (195+ words) Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Federated Farmers national president Colin Hurst to find out the results from the organisation’s latest farm confidence survey. The president of Federated Farmers says profitability is the highest…...
Benguet potato farmers reap gains from URC sustainability drive
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (483+ words) Alongside the widely grown Granola potato, farmers planted trial plots of Hilite Russet, Russet Burbank, Eva, Mystere, Kennebec, Red Norland and Satina to determine varieties that could potentially improve production. The trials are part of Universal Robina Corp.'s (URC)…...