President hosts pre-show gathering
	Officers, council members and staff of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association gathered in advance of the annual Royal Cornwall Show as guests of the president, Lady Banham.

	Supermarket to buy Cornish milk in bulk
	This April has seen Trewithen Dairy at Greymare Farm, Lostwithiel, supplying local ASDA stores with local fresh milk. The dairy has previously supplied ASDA under its local branded range however, this is the first time a supplier has moved to supplying ASDA under the retailers own label product range.

Free workshops in south west

Farmers and food producers across the South West are invited to get the low-down on how they can supply the public sector in a series of free workshops taking place later this month.

Search is on for countryside champion

A search has been launched across the South West to find people who have given their lives to managing and caring for the countryside and the traditional sports which provide the incentive for a raft of rural management programmes.

Smell in the air - more to come says NFU

The foul smell wafting over large parts of London and the South East this eweekend is a taste of things to come if the Government presses ahead with its ill-conceived plan to ban slurry spreading during the winter, the NFU has warned.

First festival of its type in Wiltshire

DOWN in deepest Wiltshire, the brainchild of three members of the Wiltshire Support Group and council members - Tony Chambers, Pat Holloway and newly co-opted, Ken Cooper, is taking off at a rate which has exceeded even their most optimistic expectations!

	Cornish new potatoes on the shelves now
	Co-operative customers in Cornwall will today be the first in the country to pick up new season Cornish potatoes from their local stores.

CLA members throw down gauntlet

CLA members in the South West are to throw down the gauntlet to public sector purchasers and challenge them to take a new look at the origins of the food they buy.

Call for extra protecton for rare breeds

In the wake of DEFRA's recently announced strategy for bluetongue vaccination, Liberal Democrat and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming Tim Farron MP has today written to Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for DEFRA, to call for extra protection for rare breeds of livestock.

Biofuels - NFU take decision

The NFU has taken the opportunity of national Biofuels Day to draw a clear distinction between biofuels produced sustainably to what it calls "The British Model" that yield genuine greenhouse gas savings, and biofuels produced elsewhere in the world with fewer environmental safeguards.

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