THE FUW has responded positively to news that there are plans to bring full fibre broadband to an additional three million homes and businesses in some of the UK’s most isolated rural communities, but...
by Glyn Roberts, FUW President AS farmers, everything we do and what influences us revolves around the weather, which is of course dictated by the seasons and the climate; whether we gather enough fodder...
by Gareth Parry, FUW Policy Communications Officer Virtual Working Today is Friday of the Royal Welsh Show week, a day that would have seen the Policy team recuperating after four long days of meetings...
Members of the presidential team of the FUW have been re-elected at a special virtual meeting of the Council of the Union. The Presidential Team is democratically elected by the Union’s farmer members from...
“I believe the FUW is as relevant today to as it was in 1955 in promoting and safeguarding the viability and sustainability of Welsh Agriculture. Never more so, in my opinion, than in the...
Bryn Francis is the current Montgomeryshire county chairman. He lives in Llanfair Caereinion, and attended Llanfair Caereinion primary and then Caereinion high school of which he is now a parent governor. Bryn has been...
As Y Tir went to press the Welsh Government had just issued sAF Preliminary Check Letters on farmers’ RPW Online accounts where they believe errors may have been made on the sAF. Farmers have...
by Glyn Roberts, FUW President In recent years, farmers and others in Wales have begun to use the term ‘eco-colonialism’ to describe the attitudes of some individuals and charities to the land we have...
THe FUW has written to economy Minister, Ken Skates, following the news that British Wool has been denied Covid-19 support through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CIBLs). The Covid-19 pandemic has led to...
The FUW has responded with dismay to the news that one of Wales’ biggest food companies, Castell howell which employs around 700 staff, is having to consider job cuts because of the drop in...
