Pregnant women advised to avoid animals that are giving birth
Public Health Wales is reminding pregnant women to avoid close contact with animals that are giving birth.
Pregnant women who come into close contact with sheep during lambing or other farm animals that are giving birth may risk their own...
European Innovation Partnership – supporting innovation in agriculture and forestry in Wales
On Thursday 28 January, the Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans attended the National Plant Phenomics Centre at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) in Gogerddan to officially launch the European Innovation Partnership for...
Agri Academy 2016 – the search starts for the next generation of rural leaders and entrepreneurs
The Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans will officially launch Farming Connect’s prestigious personal development programme, the Agri Academy, when she attends the Farmers’ Union of Wales annual farmhouse breakfast at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on 26
...‘Venture’ – our new initiative which will match landowners with competent individuals seeking a route into farming
Finding a way into farming can be a daunting prospect if you or your partner doesn’t have a farming family background, or if the family business isn’t of sufficient scale to support a new incomer. That all-important opportunity to earn
...Farming Connect is looking for farmers and foresters to become mentors!
Could this be your chance to share valuable life lessons and experience with others and ‘give back’ to the Welsh agri-industry?
Farming Connect has begun its search for farmers, foresters and/or food producers with at least 15 years’ experience of
...Applying for funding for approved Farming Connect training courses – first online application window for 2016 open now
Farmers and foresters registered with the new Farming Connect programme can now apply online for up to 80% funding for short, accredited training courses available through ‘Invest in Skills & Mentoring’, Farming Connect’s new and enhanced lifelong learning and development
...Sheep tagging changes in the New Year
Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans has reminded farmers about important changes that affect the way in which sheep keepers identify lambs.
From January 1, all lambs identified and intended for slaughter must be electronically identified either with...