1 June 2020
The recent prolonged spell of dry weather has led to some of Farming Connect’s Dairy demonstration sites needing to adjust their feeding and silage making regime to cope with low soil moisture levels.
Grass growth rates...
1 June 2020
Demand is increasing for on-farm family experiences and with Halloween falling around the school half term break, growing pumpkins and inviting the local community to your farm to pick their own pumpkins can be a rewarding...
28 May 2020
8 million allocated for establishing woodland in Wales.
A budget of £8million has been allocated to 9th EOI round for GWC. The window opened on the 16th March 2020 and will close at midnight 31st July...
26 May 2020
The number of females registered with Farming Connect is less than half the number of males registered. It’s a ratio that Eirwen Williams, director of rural programmes with Menter a Busnes, is determined to address.
“With...
20 May 2020
In the early 1990s, Anglesey farmer Peter Williams left home to work on a 30,000 sheep farm near Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. He was determined to broaden his horizons and learn as much as he could...
19 May 2020
Dairy farmers who improve silage quality by just 1 metabolisable energy (ME) value, to 11.5ME, will produce an additional 60,000 litres of milk from a 1,000 tonne crop.
The financial payback of producing good quality silage...
15 May 2020
A Pembrokeshire dairy farm is screening the genomics of its heifer calves to select the best replacements for the milking herd.
Rearing replacements is one of the biggest costs on a dairy farm - rearing a...
15 May 2020
Goat meat producers with low stocking rates who turn herds out to graze on long swards intermittently are reporting significantly less worm challenges.
Four goat meat businesses in Wales have come together for a project that...
14 May 2020
Home-grown spring barley could help a Welsh suckler enterprise cut its bull beef finishing costs.
The Griffith family planted 27 acres of the crop in two fields at Bodwi, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Mynytho...
6 May 2020
A Welsh suckler-to-beef enterprise is aiming to cut its calving period to 10 weeks by using bolus technology to aid heat detection in heifers and shorten the breeding period.
A compact calving period would optimise the...
