The Short Straw, Keeping Pigs and Skimming Stones
Profiling a straw shortage, efforts to encourage the next generation of Welsh pig-keepers, and a popular outdoor pastime.
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Straw shortage - a combination of a wet summer, poor harvests and cows being brought in earlier could all lead to a . We speak to a straw merchant in Whitland
A Miscanthus Safari - Welsh growers get the commercial and research scale Miscanthus plantations in mid-Wales and talk to scientists about the potential for this bio-mass energy crop
The Long Forest Project - "making Welsh hedgerows important again." Run by , they're recruiting thousands of volunteers to plant 100,000 trees and improve around 120,000m of hedgerow
Pig keepers - and joined forces this year to run a competition to find the next generation of pig keepers to develop the Industry here in Wales. We meet one winners venturing into the sector
Skimming Stones - today is the 2017 in Scotland and hoping for success is a former British top ten javelin thrower from Cardiff
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- Sun 24 Sep 2017 07:03Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
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