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The article reports on the status of livestock farming in Powys, Wales and Mid-Wales region as of December 2005. There is a regulation being implemented that required the farmers in the area to record all sheep movements within a holding. The farmers have an appeal against the council tax banding. A special discount was provided for the sale of breeding heifers.

The article focuses on milk producer David Edge's technique of winter bedding dairy herd on waste-paper ash from a recycling plant. His 240-cow herd in Flintshire, Wales, is just over the border from Chester, England and about two miles from a paper mill which recycles waste paper into newsprint. Edge is now one of several milk producers benefiting from an alternative bedding, while the mill reduces the amount of waste that might end up as landfill. The ash is produced from burning short fibre waste paper which comes from glossy magazines.

The article discusses a proposed flat-rate system of payments for basic payment scheme which is supposed to be introduced in Wales. It states that the consultation paper of scheme has outlined several criteria including inclusion of the flat-rate system in which an indicative payment rate will be provided to framers and mentions that a number of farmers would get paid more that Single Payment Scheme. Comments from Wales' farm minister Rebecca Evans regarding the payment system are presented.

The article reports on the consultation paper published by Great Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for England and Wales. It reveals the government's efforts to bring farming in line with other areas of the economy and make it easier for employees to receive annual salaries. Critics claim that the plan will actually add to the bureaucratic burden of many smaller farmers.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2012 First Milk Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Wales including the sustainability programme and presentation of papers by Nuffield scholars Jim Baird and Rhys Williams.

Reports on the decision of FPDSavills, which is owned by Finnish paper producer UPM, to sell its Cefn Llwyd forestry estate in north Wales in 2003. Reason for selling the property; Value of the property; Description of the estate.