Visit The Royal Welsh Show during your cottage
holiday in Wales. It is the biggest agricultural show in Europe. It
is organised by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, and takes place
in July of each year, at Llanelwedd, near Builth Wells in mid-Wales.
The show lasts for four days and attracts more than 200,000 visitors
annually, making it one of Wales's major tourist attractions. A visit
to the show makes for a great day trip from our self catering cottages.
Builth Wells is just over 55 miles from our holiday cottages in Pontardawe.
for further information please see the official Royal
Welsh Agricultural Show website.
Agriculture in Wales SOUTH WALES TRAVEL
GUIDE
Welcome to our Welsh farming
news pages. Approximately 80% of the land in Wales in used for agriculture.
The Welsh countryside is grassy and hilly making Wales more suited
to livestock farming than crop cultivation. The country is famous
for its sheep, of which there are more than 10 million, outnumbering
people by more than three to one. Cattle farming for beef and dairy
products is also common. About 13% of the land is covered by forestry
and woodland. Wales's fishing industry is concentrated mainly along
the Bristol Channel. Agriculture, forestry and fishing only contributes
to 1.5 % of the economy.
Our self catering holiday cottages are situated on Plas Farm, a
mixed sheep and beef cattle farm of 120 acres. There are also areas
of forestry and woodland on the farm.
For the latest Welsh farming news, please see below. For other Welsh
news, follow the links on the right hand side of the page.
Welsh Farming News
FROM BBC NEWS
Strategy set to tackle bovine TB The Welsh Assembly Government is expected to announce a programme to tackle the increase of TB in cattle. Publ.Date : Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:07:19 GMT
Farmers' £8.8m compensation deal A compensation package for sheep farmers disrupted by the 2007 foot-and-mouth outbreak is unveiled. Publ.Date : Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:17:36 GMT
Cow dung plan for housing energy A farmer wants to build a generator to turn waste from his cows into energy for 500 homes. Publ.Date : Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:53:04 GMT
Breeder lands woman farmer award A woman who took on the running of the family farm after the death of her husband is honoured. Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:25:34 GMT
Poultry show axed over bird flu The bird section of the Royal Welsh Winter Fair is cancelled following the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk. Publ.Date : Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:55:36 GMT
