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Welcome to this edition of FCTV where we will visit farmers who have set out to look carefully at their production costs and undertake changes towards these.

11 October 2022

A Farming Connect podcast has helped a Welsh farming family to launch a new pick-your-own pumpkin venture, creating a new income stream for their business.

Sheep farmers Tom and Beth Evans welcomed the first customers to their...

This dashboard outlines key Venture activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2021 - May 2022

This dashboard outlines key dairy activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January - April 2022.

This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2022 - April 2022.

This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...

“There aren’t enough hours in the day” for entrepreneurial young Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson

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...