Strengthening our Privacy Policy
KEEPING your personal information safe and secure is our top priority. That’s why we’re letting you know about some changes to our privacy policy in readiness for the introduction of the new general data...
Category: FUW News
Cautious reaction to statement on post-Brexit timetable
ThE FUW has reacted cautiously to a Welsh Government statement setting out a timetable for moving from the Basic Payment Scheme to a new system post-Brexit, stressing that protecting family farms and our rural...
Defra’s Health and Harmony consultation – FUW’s response
Defra’s Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit consultation, closed in april. Whilst large sections of the document relate directly to england, others are relevant to...
More Words – but what do they mean, again?
by Alan Davies, FUW managing director I’ve written a few times in recent months about Words. Words that have become commonly acceptable, words that are being increasingly used and words that just take on...
Baffled by the Clean Air Strategy
by Glyn Roberts, FUW president Anyone who takes a walk around our beautiful countryside and takes in the breathtaking views, clean air and rejoices in the patchwork of green fields up and down the...
FUW mourns loss of agricultural wordsmith
LAST month we lost one of agricultures well-known and respected farming reporters – Meyrick Brown – who died suddenly at home at the age of 82. He was a regular on the agricultural shows...
Devil will be in the detail
THe FUW has cautiously welcomed the agreement between the UK and Welsh Government on changes to the UK Government eU (Withdrawal) Bill, and now looks forward to positive movement in the detail around creating...
Bracken Management day at Llangunllo
POWYS Morland Partnership and the Heather Trust are set to host a bracken management day at Llangunllo, near Knighton in Powys on July 10. The event will start at 10.30am at Llangunllo village hall,...
Farmers urged to get BVD ready
GWAReDU BVD is the three year RDP funded BVD programme for Wales which began in September 2017. A total of £10 million pounds has been made available for the eradication of BVD in Wales...
Union welcomes ban on misleading Vegan advert
The FUW has welcomed a ruling by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) which bans an advert by vegan pressure group ‘Viva!’ on the grounds that it misled consumers. The advert wrongly claimed that constituents...
