Rural Affairs
RURAL AFFAIRS
The Rural Affairs Committee offers a wide range of opportunities to young farmers members.
Learn the fundamentals required to run a successful pig enterprise with the Prime Pork competition. Showcase your calves and lambs at the Winter Fair with the Baby Beef and Prime Lamb Competitions. Visit agricultural enterprises across the country with fellow Wales YFC members during the Rural Affairs Study Tour. Take advantage of current opportunities such as the Wales YFC Lamb Initiative, or be in with the chance of winning a quad bike with the ATV Challenge. Benefit from exclusive YFC discounts for shearing and wool handling courses with British Wool or 5% off quad bikes with CFMOTO. Celebrate all things agriculture during the Wales YFC Agri Conference and Agri Awards – Could you be the next winner?
AGRI AWARDS 2025
The Wales YFC Agri Awards celebrate all things agriculture.
COULD YOU BE OUR NEXT WINNERS?
About the Challenge
Wales YFC will be holding its annual Winter Fair bonanza competition with the ATV Challenge, Kindly sponsored by Quad Bikes Wales. Come along and see Wales YFC members show off their safety skills whilst operating an ATV around a course set up by Quad Bikes Wales.
Why should you get involved?
The lucky winner will win the use of a Brand New Honda ATV sponsored by Quad Bikes Wales and the second and third prize winners also win a helmet.
RURAL AFFAIRS STUDY TOUR
Every year the Rural Affairs Committee organise a Study Tour as a part of their yearly programme.
2023
Between 13th and 16th of October 2023, 45 members travelled to Northern Ireland for Wales YFC’s Rural Affairs annual study tour. Magheraknock Herefords, Rowandale Farm and Corries Livestock name just a few of the farms that they visited.
Click on the button below to read a blog from Angharad Thomas, the 2023-2024 Rural Affairs Chair to hear all about the trip.
2022
On the 14th of October 2022, thirty-five members of Wales YFC headed to Cumbria on the first Rural Affairs Study Tour since 2019. Members from Ynys Môn all the way down to Glamorgan embarked on the journey north.
Click on the button below to read a blog from Dewi Davies, the 2022-2023 Rural Affairs Chair to hear all about the trip.
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