Animal Health

Managing and controlling disease and ensuring animal health and welfare is the most effective way to maintain or increase productivity from livestock. 

This page aims to group together Animal Health activity undertaken through the Farming Connect programme.


In this section:


| News
Farming Connect training courses can help fulfil personal development and strengthen farm practices
21 March 2024   Julie Davies, an active partner in the family business at Upper Court Farms,…
| Case Studies
Measuring helps Welsh sheep farm manage summer grass shortages
Measuring and calculating grass availability is helping a Welsh sheep farm to prevent forage…
| Case Studies
Grass management allows livestock farm to up grass production to 13t/ha DM
A Welsh beef and sheep farmer is able to carry a similar number of livestock to the headage he…
| Case Studies
Grass measuring and budgeting has given a Welsh dairy farmer the confidence to change his fertiliser policy, reducing input costs by £20,000 a year.
Huw Williams milks 250 autumn-calving Holstein Friesians at Ffordd Las, near Ruthin, where feed…
| Case Studies
Grazed grass a key profit driver for Welsh Pasture Project dairy farm
To produce high-quality milk and keep its dairy cows healthy, Maesllwch Home Farm in the Wye Valley…
| News
Beef rearer targets calf health and performance with Farming Connect project
18 March 2024   A Welsh beef farm is making changes to calf rearing management to improve its…

Events

2 Apr 2024
Horticulture - Organic Production in practice – Scaling up
Crymych
Awen Organics is a 25 acre organic farm going into...
10 Apr 2024
Understanding Johne’s Disease Workshop
Kidwelly
Workshop attendees will learn about the clinical signs,...
10 Apr 2024
Improving Post Weaning Lamb Performance Workshop
Carmarthen
Workshop attendees will work through the aspects of...
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