Country Focus

The State of Nature - Wales is using up its natural resources at an "unsustainable rate" and is yet to meet any of the long-term aims it had set to tackle the issue, according to its environment watchdog. A meat processing plant in Montgomeryshire recently warned it could shed a third of its 150 jobs due to increased paperwork and extra costs post-Brexit. We hear the wider implications for those trying to export food into Europe. How do we develop a nature-based economy? Hemp - a project to assess the viability of growing hemp seed and fibre on Welsh farms for industrial purposes. and what birds can you spot on your Farmland? The Big Farmland Bird Count gets underway this week .