Country Focus
Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079frs
- Description
- Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-18 07:37
- last episode published
- 2025-02-16 07:30
- publication frequency
- 15.15 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio Wales
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 190
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- News Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-16 | Whether you're visiting a beach on the Gower Peninsula or a mountain lake in Gwynedd, it seems people in Wales are embracing the tradition of a sauna. As well as associated health benefits its a chance to be outdoors and at one with nature. There's be... |
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| 2025-02-09 | Rural Buses - what would a good bus network look like in rural Wales? The Welsh Government is set to trial a new bus franchise in communities in Ceredigion and Powys to bring about reform and a more customer-focused, integrated network of services. We ... |
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| 2025-02-02 | An all-Wales Avian Influenza Prevention Zone is introduced in Wales, requiring all keepers of poultry and other captive birds to practice good biosecurity and vigilance to protect their flocks. As the disease spreads among birds, a human case of the ... |
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| 2025-01-26 | Farmers protest in a "National Day of Unity" over farm Inheritance Tax but with much change and uncertainty what are their concerns? I join the FUW's Farmhouse Breakfast week in the SeneddMud - we hear how Welsh mud and silt could make a sizeable cont... |
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| 2025-01-19 | An outbreak of Foot and mouth disease in Germany brings import bans and calls for farmers to be vigilant. We speak to the Chief Vet for Wales.Signs of spring - have you spotted any yet? The Field Studies council would love to hear from you - details ... |
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| 2024-12-22 | It's become a feature of the countryside Christmas.....the increasingly popular festive tractor run. Country Focus presenter, Caroline Evans joins the Young Farmers for this year's parade through the towns and villages around Llangollen. |
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| 2024-12-15 | Falling numbers of livestock ....new figures show the Welsh sheep flock has fallen to just 8.75m in 2024 - down from 12m in the 1990s. We hear how it's of prime concern for the Chair of Hybu Cig Cymru-Meat Promotion WalesThe rural gallery, MOMA - or t... |
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| 2024-12-08 | Using natural ingredients and traditional methods - and a little bit of patience....this week we're at an award-winning dairy in Gwynedd that specialises in cheeses and creamy yogurt - made from sheep's milk. Dr Carrie Rimes used to make cheese on he... |
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| 2024-12-01 | A revised version of the Welsh Government's Sustainable Farming Scheme - "Tree planting and hedgerow creation" replaces the 10% tree cover requirement and the checklist of actions farmers would have to sign up to in order to access the scheme's univers... |
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| 2024-11-24 | Farming news - we look back at the farmers' protest in London over the Agricultural Inheritance tax and look forward to the changes the Welsh Government will announce at this year's Royal Welsh Winter Fair on the Sustainable Farming Scheme.Cegin y Bobl... |
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