Meetings
Farming Connect
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
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Meeting: 14/03/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 2)
- Webcast for 14/03/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
- Transcript for 14/03/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
2 Farming Connect
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 4)
- Webcast for 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
- Transcript for 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
4 Inquiry: Farming Connect: Panel 2 - Stakeholders
Hywel Morgan, Chair, Nature Friendly Farming Network Cymru (NFFN)
Elaine Harrison, National Manager for Wales, Confor
Arfon Williams, Head of Land and Sea Policy for RSPB Cymru, representing Wales Environment Link (WEL)
Supporting documents:
- Evidence paper - Nature Friendly Farming Network Cymru (NFFN), item 4 PDF 247 KB
- Evidence paper - Confor, item 4 PDF 144 KB
- Evidence paper - Wales Environment Link (WEL), item 4 PDF 534 KB
Minutes:
4.1 The Committee heard evidence from the panel on Farming Connect.
4.2 Confor agreed to write to the Committee to provide further detail on how Confor and Farming Connect might complement each other in terms of the woodland elements of the Sustainable Farming Scheme.
Meeting: 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 3)
- Webcast for 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
- Transcript for 22/02/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
3 Inquiry: Farming Connect: Panel 1 - Stakeholders
Dominic Hampson-Smith, Rural Affairs Vice Chairman, Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (YFC)
Gareth Parry, Deputy Head of Policy, Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW)
Abi Reader, Deputy President, National Farmers' Union Cymru (NFU)
Supporting documents:
- Evidence paper - Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW), item 3 PDF 77 KB
- Evidence paper - National Farmers' Union Cymru (NFU), item 3 PDF 234 KB
- Additional paper - Lantra, item 3 PDF 310 KB
- Additional paper - Menter a Busnes, item 3 PDF 1 MB
- Research brief
Minutes:
3.1 The Committee heard evidence from the panel on Farming Connect.
Meeting: 31/01/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 2)
- Webcast for 31/01/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
- Transcript for 31/01/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
2 Farming Connect
Supporting documents:
- Letter to Lantra - 23 January 2024, item 2 PDF 74 KB
- Letter to Menter a Busnes - 23 January 2024, item 2 PDF 74 KB
- Letter to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd - 23 January 2024, item 2 PDF 78 KB