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Royal Welsh Show appeals to Assembly for cash assistance
THE Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, which sustained a loss of half-a-million pounds due to the cancellation of this year's show in July, has asked the National Assembly for a lifeline of £400,000. Dr Emrys Evans, chairman of the Royal Welsh board of
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Growers gear up for potato harvest
POTATO growers in Herefordshire are gearing up for the harvest and with prices in a seasonal dip many are wondering just how they are going to fare. Already a large volume of potatoes has been dug indifferent parts of the country and other factors have
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'Government wanted no movement at all'
David Morgan, NFU livestock officer, who farms just inside an infected area at Peterchurch, said he had been told at Worcester that the infected area status would last at least a month. The problem stemmed from the Welsh border and once the status there
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Livestock movement licences by computer link
DEFRA say there has been delay in launching the new autumn regulations because of the work involved in setting up the computer link needed by the staff at local authority's animal health and welfare offices through which stock movement licences will be
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Package of measures will tighten the laws on poultry meat
A PACKAGE of measures to tighter the laws preventing unfit poultry meat entering the human food chain has been announced by the Food Standards Agency. An action plan is expected to be one of the many topics discussed at the UK's first open debate on food
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Breeders lose sales overnight
THE reclassification of Herefordshire as a high-risk foot-and-mouth county has brought howls of protest from farmers. DEFRA says the classification will be reviewed on a weekly basis but that is little comfort for breeders who rely on sales to producers
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Hereford United 0 Yeovil Town 2
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 HEREFORD United lost their unbeaten home Nationwide Conference record in a comprehensive 2-0 defeat by Yeovil Town last night. Injury-hit Hereford can have no complaints about the result. In fact, it was surprising Hereford
