07 May 2025
A 1.5-acre pick-your-own (PYO) pumpkin venture has been a profitable diversification for a new entrant farming business, a Farming Connect trial has shown.
Laura Pollock and Matt Brooks farm 114-acre Lower House Farm beneath the Wentwood Hills...
06 May 2025
Setting up and growing a successful new business is something many people will only ever dream about. Young farmer Cian Iolen Rhys says that Farming Connect’s Agri Academy Junior Programme gave him the confidence and life-skills to...
30 April 2025
Anna Bowen has been appointed the new leader of the Agri Academy Senior Programme 2025!
Alongside her freelance work, Anna works as a farm business consultant for The Andersons Centre. She also manages a 300-cow spring block...
29 April 2025
Through Farming Connect’s Our Farms network, and with support from sector-specific industry experts, farmers have been driving improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and profitability since 2015.
Farming Connect has now added 12 new farms to this network, covering...
28 April 2024
Launched in 2012 and the first of its kind, the Agri Academy now has over 300 alumni, each proud to reflect on the time spent on the Farming Connect flagship personal development residential programme as an invaluable...
24 April 2025
A project involving multiple Welsh dairy farms has demonstrated why collecting data to establish the mastitis red flags specific to an individual herd can be key to reducing disease incidence.
Farming Connect enlisted ten herds ranging in...
23 April 2025
Farmers are invited to a series of on-farm events - Grassland weed challenge: Strategies for success. Hosted at three locations across Wales, these events with Daniel Lievesley of DJL Agriculture, a 2025 shortlisted national agronomist of the...
17 April 2025
There is a growing trend of consumers in Wales choosing locally produced fruit, vegetables and flowers. Not only are they supporting local growers, these buyers are also reflecting today’s shift towards increased environmental awareness and the desire...
07 April 2025
Farmers across Pembrokeshire are proving that even in the most isolating of professions, no one has to face TB alone.
Recognising the profound impact of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on both their livestock and their personal wellbeing, in...
03 April 2025
Catch up with the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the finalists in the second series of ‘Our Dream Farm’, Channel 4’s popular tv programme, who are currently on our screens at 7pm on Saturday evenings; the ‘dream...
