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Championing Farming and Whooper Swans

The rural news magazine speaks to the woman taking the helm of the National Farmers' Union. Plus why larger than normal numbers of whooper swans are visiting the UK this year.

28 minutes

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Sun 11 Mar 2018 07:03

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NFU President - newly elected to lead the National Farmers Union, Minette Batters has vowed to champion the farming industry at a crucial time of both great change and opportunity. The Wiltshire beef farmer is the first female president to lead the farming union in it's 110-year history.

Dairy - a report looking at Welsh dairy farm performance has shown the "vulnerability and volatility" of the industry.

Fair Trade - we meet the chairman of an organic coffee cooperative in India on a visit to a beef and sheep farm in Tredegar. Father John Joseph, a spice and coffee farmer, finds the challenges they both face are not such a world apart.

Phone Boxes - the much-loved village telephone boxes find new lease of life in the countryside. A project run by the rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd, is finding new and practical uses for the iconic red box found in the heart of villages across the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham

and the Whooper Swans overwintering in Carmarthenshire

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