PLANS to change the drainage management of a huge wetland will go under scrutiny next week. Environment Agency Wales is concerned at operating losses for maintaining ditches at Malltraeth marshes, Anglesey.

By GARETH VAUGHAN I WAS dismayed by the BBC's Countryfile programme's recent assertion that with the possibility of a global food shortage and increased worldwide demand for wheat and meat it looks like farmers may be making money for the first time in a decade.

By Steve Dube A farming leader has renewed calls for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the price of lamb on supermarket shelves.

A new strategic action plan for the Welsh dairy industry has received a lukewarm response from the farming unions.

THE Dairy Development Centre has teamed up with the Farmers Union of Wales to organise a milk sector Question Time at Llysfasi College, Ruthin, on September 11 at 7.30pm.