Country Focus - Sunday 19th June at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 20th June at 0530

If you've travelled through Mid Wales recently, you'll have bound to have noticed the many placards along the route protesting at what people living in Montgomeryshire are calling a 'pylon invasion'. Plans to connect the area's wind turbines to the Uk's power network could involve a 100 mile stretch of pylons and a 19-acre substation. This week sees the deadline for the consultation period in which National Grid is asking local people for their comments on the proposals. Feelings are running high - as a recent protest at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay revealed

There's been much talk of drought recently and limited rainfall in the last three months has forced Wales' farmers to irrigate their crops or risk losing them. But how does it work? We visit the farm of potato grower Walter Simon which has a comprehensive irrigation system using water pumped from the farm's lake

To cull or not to cull - that is the question that could finally be answered this week as Environment minister John Griffiths is expected to make a statement to AMs at Plenary at the Senedd on Tuesday. A recent poll by the BBC suggests that the majority of Britons in both town and country oppose killing badgers to curb cattle tuberculosis.

Tackling two of the most common hospital acquired infections - the so-called superbugs MRSA and C.Difficile is the aim of a joint project between the National Botanic Gardens of Wales and Cardiff University. And they think that bees may hold the vital clues they need ...and you can help

And we meet DJ Wooly and Will.I. Lamb - Two teenage farmers from Powys who'll be performing at Galstonbury next weekend after winning a UK wide competition designed to boost farming's image. 18 year old Richard Lewis, and 17 year old Llion Vaughan won the Tractor Factor contest with their parody of a recent Rhianna hit.