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...
13 December 2022
“Thanks to receiving mentoring from an award-winning beekeeper, I’ve got the confidence and skills to know that I’m doing all I can for my Welsh black bees and their wellbeing.”
Carys Edwards is an award-winning beekeeper...
9 December 2022
“However confident you are in your own ability, there are sometimes better or different ways of doing things.”
These are the words of William Williams, who keeps around 500 easy-care ewes at the 200-acre farm near...
30 November 2022
A young farmer’s resolve to make his family farm self-sufficient and remove its reliance on direct subsidy payments has been the catalyst to a highly successful horticulture diversification.
Ed Swan joined his parents, Clive and Gail...
24 November 2022
North Wales sheep farmer Huw Beech and his wife Bethan are turning an undermanaged farm woodland into a sustainable energy-producing enterprise – a project they say they would never have envisaged were it not for Farming...
11 November 2022
Setting up a new business growing, supplying and delivering boxes of fresh local produce has been a fast but rewarding learning curve for Sarah Evans. Sarah is the proud owner of Watery Lane Produce, a small...
10 November 2022
A Farming Connect trial has shown a cost benefit of up to £3.36/head from supplementing lambs with trace elements post-weaning; however, grass availability and parasite control had the biggest influence on the performance of animals in...
27 October 2022
Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded? Would you like the opportunity to be a share partner helping develop that...
30 September 2022
“I would not be where I am today if it were not for Farming Connect,” says Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson. Scott (25) is ambitious, focused and also very busy! He works alongside his parents at...
Richard Rees
Farm name and location: Penmaen Bach, Pennal, Machynlleth
Sector: Red Meat (Sheep)
Being lightly stocked, we have been lucky over the last couple of months; we have managed to keep average farm cover fairly consistent around 2200kgDM/ha, with...
