News And Events 2010
See AGAP at the Anglesey Show 10th - 11th August 2010. AGAP is sharing a stand with the Farmers Union of Wales where you can:
- See and get close to some of the ponies who help to graze at Breakwater Country Park.
- Smell the sizzling FUW sausage completion entries as they are cooked. Judging on Tuesday morning and Results on Wednesday morning.
- “Taste the view” as you sample some of the AGAP Bodior beef burgers. Tuesday pm.
- Learn some new cookery techniques from Mel Thomas the S4C celebrity chef. Wednesday pm.
- Talk to us over tea and Welshcakes and find out more about grazing matters on the stand.
Launch Of AGAP Quality Mark
The AGAP Quality Mark is a certification scheme which farmers can use to promote produce from land managed to benefit wildlife. The criteria take into account the type of land the animals graze, welfare standards, provenance of feed, production methods and maturing of the meat.
The launch will take place at the Anglesey Show from 10.30 on Wednesday as part of the events above.
Dros-y-Fenai Slow Food Group
AGAP beef barbecue and talk.
August 29th 2010: This event, for members of Dros y Fenai will be held on Dr Wil and Diana Roberts’ smallholding near Rhoscolyn. There will be a chance to tour the land and see the wildlife and Welsh Black cattle. Hilary Kehoe will give a short talk about conservation grazing and local AGAP produce.
North Wales Wildlife Trust (NWWT) Gwynedd
November 24th 2010. Hilary Kehoe will give a presentation and talk entitled ‘Linking livestock and landscape’ about AGAP’s work on Anglesey.
For information contact the North Wales Wildlife Trust. 01248 351541.
Talk to Glasinfryn Womens Institute
Hilary Kehoe will be giving a talk and slide show about Farming and Wildlife on Anglesey at an evening meeting in December 2010. Date to be confirmed.
Anglesey Winter Fair
AGAP will sponsor a class at the main winter farming event on Anglesey on the 29th and 30th of November 2010. The AGAP stand will be by the main ring. Come and have a welshcake and a chat.
Stockchecking Course (GAP)
The livestock checkers course provides a basic introduction to stock checking. The course is ideal for beginners, volunteers or anyone with little or no experience of livestock. The course covers animal health and welfare, the key legislation, the role and responsibilities of a stock checker and how to safely and effectively check livestock.
The Grazing Advice Partnership stock checking course arranged by AGAP in Talybont in March 2010 was well attended, the course participants got out on the farm to put theory learned in the morning into practise and see how the tutor gets his information – straight from the horses’ mouth!
