Bike thefts – weekend raiders break into sheds
Farmers in Flintshire have become victims of a professional gang of quad bike thieves, with more than £15,000 of aTVs stolen in one night. FUW member John Wrench, a beef and arable farmer, of...
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Student Caleb’s new quick fencer is a prize winner
sTUDenT Caleb Bowkett’s design for a quick-fencer device to go behind tractors won him the FUW award for the best project in agriculture at Gelli aur campus this year. Caleb (pictured below), came up...
Vital vet roles in Wales must be maintained
A POTEnTiALLy devastating gap in both large animal practitioners and Official Veterinarians (OVs) could be averted following the Migratory Advisory Committee recommendation recently that vets should be added to the Shortage Occupation List. The...
Moves to increase supply chain transparency welcomed
THE FUW has welcomed moves by the European Commission, which aim to increase transparency in the supply chain, by improving the ways in which prices are recorded and reported. in 2016, an EU Agricultural...
FUW highlights NADIS and Elanco Blowfly alert
The FUW would like all sheep farmers to consider the recent Blowfly alert raised by NADIS and elanco. NADIS and elanco are concerned that the risk of Blowfly strike is rising, with current risk...
FUW COUNTY NEWS
AGNLESEY Creu Grŵp Agriscôp Gogledd Orllewin Cymru Ynghyd â Siroedd Meirionnydd a Chaernarfon mae cangen UAC Ynys Môn wedi creu grŵp Agrisgop drwy Cyswllt Ffermio er mwyn rhannu syniadau a cheisio datblygu’r Undeb yn...
“The Resilient Farmer” to bring speaking tour back to UK in Autumn
DOug AvERy, AKA “The Resilient Farmer”, is bringing his speaking tour back to the uK later in the year, following a hugely successful tour of Scotland in 2018. The tour, titled “Shift Happens! An...
VAT reclaim – please help us beat the target
AS you remember, FUW Ltd registered for VAT in March 2019 and the registration date was back-dated to September 1 2017. In order to raise the Output VAT retrospectively due to hMRC, members who...
Conwy Council’s Great Orme ‘Witch Hunt’ enquiry call
The FUW has demanded Conwy Borough County Council conduct a full investigation into its decision to aggressively pursue a case against a Great Orme farmer, after the case against him collapsed during a court...
Massive Russian support for liberalising Welsh countryside access?
by Glyn Roberts, FUW President We know that disinformation through social media campaigns and computer hacking were used in 2016 by the Russians to influence the US Presidential elections, but why would they have...
