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On Welsh farms they were used to pull ploughs and sometimes wagons during the nineteenth century, and were the prized possessions by which a man's wealth could be estimated. Nowadays, many have been crossed with Charolais , Limousin or Hereford bulls but pure bred herds can still be found in many parts of the uplands.
Sheep in a field near Aberystwyth. Sheep farming is an environmental issue in Wales.Much of the nation is rural countryside and sheep are farmed throughout Wales.The woollen industry in Wales was a major contributor to the national economy, accounting for two-thirds of the nation's exports in 1660.
Prior to the FUW, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) was the only organisation representing farming businesses in Wales.Increasingly, some Welsh members believed the NFU had been inadequate in negotiations during annual agricultural price review, and that the NFU prioritised big English farms over small Welsh ones.
According to Welsh government research in 2010 [2] the area of potential wind farm land in Wales was 3027 km 2. Although wind farms put some constraints on farming and forestry, they are not incompatible with these land uses. The most recent figures for proportions of agricultural land are from 2011, [3] and for forest and woodland from 2015. [4]
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Welsh friezes were also exported from Welsh ports or from Bristol. [23] In the early 16th century, cloth for export was mainly produced in south Wales and shipped from the local ports. During that century there was a shift in production to mid-Wales and north Wales, and the woollen production was exported via Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
By 1984 the few organic dairy farms in Ceredigion sold their milk to the Milk Marketing Board but without any premium for their organic produce. Campbell established Welsh Organic Foods to support organic milk producers, capitalising on the organic provenance of the milk and turning it into the first organic-cheese making company in Britain.
[5] [9] A traditional Caerphilly must be made with milk produced by Welsh farms. It can be either pasteurised or unpasteurised, and comes in both organic and non-organic varieties. [8] It is created by adding rennet to buttermilk, resulting in curd production. This is then formed and cut, before being pressed lightly into a cylindrical mould.