Case Studies

8 March 2023

Keeping up with essential continual professional development through Farming Connect training while Storfa Sgiliau provides ‘proof of the pudding’

8 March 2023 When First Milk, one of the UK’s leading dairy processing companies, comes calling for one of its regular animal health audits at Great Molleston Farm, a 400 acre dairy farm near Narberth, young farmer Hannah Phillips is...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Dairy

Theme: Business, Livestock

Julie Thomas, managing director of Simply the Best Training Consultancy

7 March 2023

Lifelong learning is helping farmers in Wales work more effectively

7 March 2023 “Once farmers realise Farming Connect training will help them run their business more effectively, their very first course often sets them on a path of lifelong learning, their reticence disappears and their confidence grows.” These are the...

Type: Case Studies Theme: Business

27 February 2023

Carmarthenshire farmer learning everything he needs to know about modern farming through Farming Connect

27 February 2023 His parents introduced him to the hands-on ‘land and livestock’ side of farming at an early age but for Carmarthenshire-born Dylan Morgan, it’s Farming Connect that keeps this construction management graduate ‘bang up to date’. Dylan says...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Beef, Sheep

Theme: Business, Land, Livestock

22 February 2023

“It’s never too late to learn about farming” – Nadine Evans is loving her new life as a farm worker

22 February 2023 Nadine Evans has got no farming background whatsoever – but where there’s a will there’s often a way and ‘farming is all I ever wanted to do!’ Now in her early 50s, Liverpool-born Nadine is finally living...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Arable, Beef, Goats, Horticulture, Organic, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep

Theme: Business, Land, Livestock

9 February 2023

Value of expert advice and ideas sharing demonstrated by high quality silage project

9 February 2023 A group of Welsh livestock farmers is collectively capturing feed savings of £26,000 a year across their sheep flocks by increasing the metabolisable energy (ME) value of their silage. The Farming Connect-facilitated Hiraethog Discussion Group has been...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Sheep

Theme: Business, Land, Livestock

25 January 2023

Three luxury holiday pods overlooking the spectacular Clwydian Range prove a sound diversification investment

25 January 2023 “The investment in terms of cash and commitment for a new tourism venture is not for the faint-hearted, but when you read your glowing reviews and the bookings keep coming, you know it’s all going to be...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Beef, Diversification, Sheep

Theme: Business, Livestock

23 January 2023

From farm worker to share farmer – an introduction through Farming Connect’s Venture programme was the start of ‘a dream come true’ for young Anglesey farmer

23 January 2023 Anglesey-born young farmer, Martyn Owen, has won the prestigious Brynle Williams Memorial Award for 2022, which recognises the achievements of a young farmer who has found their way into farming through Farming Connect’s Venture programme. Martyn, who...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Beef

Theme: Business, Land, Livestock

23 January 2023

Wanted! Farming Connect is searching for a new entrant for a share farming opportunity in Denbighshire

23 January 2023 Rhian Pierce is knowledgeable, competent and a very capable beef and sheep farmer who farms alongside her father at Plas Dolben, Llangynhafal in Denbighshire. As Mr Pierce reduces the time he spends on the farm and looks...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Beef, Sheep

Theme: Business, Land, Livestock

17 January 2023

Collaboration through Venture brings mutual benefits to farm owner and new entrant

17 January 2023 The knowledge and experience of an established sheep farmer and the ambition and energy of a new entrant have combined in a new joint venture farming partnership facilitated by Farming Connect’s Venture service. Second generation farmer Ian...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Sheep

Theme: Business, Livestock Key Specialism: Joint Ventures

12 January 2023

Farming Connect project work interventions help sheep farm halve prolapse rate

12 January 2023 A Denbighshire sheep farm has halved its incidence of prolapse at lambing by tackling known risk factors in pregnant ewes. Prolapse had been one of the biggest challenges in the closed flock of 350 pedigree Lleyns and...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Sheep

Theme: Business, Livestock

Keeping up with essential continual professional development through Farming Connect training while Storfa Sgiliau provides ‘proof of the pudding’

Lifelong learning is helping farmers in Wales work more effectively

Carmarthenshire farmer learning everything he needs to know about modern farming through Farming Connect

“It’s never too late to learn about farming” – Nadine Evans is loving her new life as a farm worker

Value of expert advice and ideas sharing demonstrated by high quality silage project

Three luxury holiday pods overlooking the spectacular Clwydian Range prove a sound diversification investment

From farm worker to share farmer – an introduction through Farming Connect’s Venture programme was the start of ‘a dream come true’ for young Anglesey farmer

Wanted! Farming Connect is searching for a new entrant for a share farming opportunity in Denbighshire

Collaboration through Venture brings mutual benefits to farm owner and new entrant

Farming Connect project work interventions help sheep farm halve prolapse rate

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