Pembrokeshire dairy farm wins top silage award
20 April 2021 |
The Llysyfran dairy business is run by brother-and-sister team Nigel Williams and Joy Smith
A Pembrokeshire dairy farming business has taken home a top silage award after it won this year s All Wales Clamp Silage Competition.
The 2020-21 winner is North Pembrokeshire Grassland Society members Nigel Williams and Joy Smith of Parc-y-Marl Farm, Llysyfran.
The competition is run by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society and is open to all members of the 22 Welsh Grassland Societies.
The judging panel unanimously agreed that Parc-y-Marl Farm as a whole is well managed within a very tidy system .
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BURIED in the countryside on the northern edge of Darlington is an abandoned 17th Century farmhouse called Coatham Grange. It is beside the Stockton & Darlington Railway – indeed there is an “accommodation bridge”, perhaps dating from 1825, which allowed the farmer and his animals to go under the line without getting run over.
Robert Stephenson, seated, with his father, George - both men used the same method to take their railway lines over notorious bogs This farmhouse was once called Myers Flat and, as Memories 517 told, this area was where George Stephenson had the most difficulty when building the world’s first modern railway.
All of the applications can be viewed via the planning section of South Gloucestershire Council’s website. Creation of two ponds at Hill House Farm, Station Road, Charfield. Ref. No: DLL21/0200 Status: Awaiting decision Creation of new access from Old Hundred Lane to the site. Installation of agricultural gate, and SUDS metalled track, remove part of boundary wall. Engineering works within field and embankment. Realignment of existing wire and post fence. On land off Old Hundred Lane, Tormarton. Ref. No: DOC21/00080 Status: Awaiting decision Discharge of conditions attached to the erection of up to 90 residential dwellings with public open space, landscaping, sustainable drainage system and vehicular access from Sodbury Road, on land south of Horwood Lane, Wickwar.