Bursary winner warns of farming time bomb (From Western Telegraph)

Bursary winner warns of farming time bomb

This years winner of the annual Clynderwen and Cardiganshire Farmers bursary award, is Cerwyn Davies, an agricultural student from Wernlwyd Farm, Wolfscastle.

Cerwyn presented a paper entitled, The time bomb threatening farmings future, in which he highlighted the difficulties facing would-be young entrants into the industry today.

His paper confronted the decline of the tradition for young people to follow their parents into farming, using a recent FUW survey.

Relatively low income and poor returns on their investments meant, he suggested, that very few young people had any desire to go to their graves in their wellies any longer.

The elder son of Pembrokeshire County Council tenant farmers, Gwyn and Sheila Davies, Cerwyn concluded that for there to be any future in the farming industry it must accept that todays young people will bring in essential new ideas and innovations. This years judge was Professor Dai Morris.