Western Telegraph | Pembrokeshire Farmer

Snow let up for farmers in the big chill

12:12pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010

During the recent sub-zero temperatures, I was woken in the dead of the night by an indignant horse.

Tragedy of bovine TB

12:42pm Monday 7th December 2009

Dear Editor – No one can deny that bTB can have catastrophic effects on a farming family and their business.

Food waste is hard to swallow

11:34am Tuesday 1st December 2009

It’s interesting how selective memories from our childhood can be, often dredging up the most inconsequential events from the distant past while blotting out key markers.

A valuable lesson for all children

12:27pm Monday 9th November 2009

What better way for children to learn about food and farming than to see a crop growing in the field, learn from the farmer how to grow it and then tuck into some locally-produced bread.

MPs, spare us your blushes – eat British food

11:22am Friday 2nd October 2009

DEAR EDITOR – DEFRA Secretary Hilary Benn has recently talked about the UK becoming more self-sufficient in its food production and has stated that ‘It's about people eating more food seasonally’.

Scoop horses’ poop? It was an interesting debate!

11:21am Friday 2nd October 2009

THERE is good reason why there are laws to control dog fouling.

All change again for farm minister

11:10am Tuesday 30th June 2009

I was at the South West Sheep event a couple of weeks ago, the day after farming and environment minister Jane Kennedy resigned.

Imagine effect of a food blockade

12:31pm Monday 18th May 2009

According to the chief executive of Tesco we should be leaving it to the consumer to regulate food prices.

A few pennies is all it would take

1:12pm Monday 27th April 2009

Pembrokeshire’s green and pleasant farmland is capable of producing some of the best grass in the world, so why is it that milk buyers can’t pay their dairy farmers enough to keep them in business?

Time to cancel bad weather

12:58pm Friday 20th March 2009

A list of over-used words in recent months would be littered with recessions, depressions and of course the ubiquitous credit crunch.

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