Can Chicory hold key to higher lamb DLWG at Denbighshire sheep farm? - 18/12/2020
Non Williams our technical officer and Hugh Jones, Pentre Farm a Farming Connect Demonstration Sites reflects on the outcomes from the first year project.
News and Events
Air pollution: Reducing ammonia emissions by adapting livestock management approaches
17 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Ammonia is a key contributor to air pollution levels, as it can become particulate matter after combination with other pollutant materials from a range of sources...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Can precision technologies help?
17 December 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Antimicrobial resistance is a major concern across human and animal health
- Moving away from blanket antimicrobial treatments is having positive effects on AMR but more focus is needed on...
Air pollution: The role of agriculture in Wales
16 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current levels of air pollution present a major health risk.
- Ammonia emitted as a result of agricultural activities can contribute to particulate matter formation (a key...
Venture: June 2020 – November 2020
This dashboard outlines Venture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between June 2020 - November 2020.
Agrisgôp success story as a bilingual ‘farming’ diary 2021 reaches the shelves
11 December 2020
If coronavirus has scuppered your plans for Christmas shopping, don’t despair! An enterprising group of young women from North Wales may have the perfect solution. If your nearest and dearest are involved with farming or rural...
Home-rearing bull beef on ad-lib concentrates and straw has worked out marginally cheaper for a Welsh suckler enterprise than out-sourcing the job to a finishing unit.
9 December 2020
The Griffith family run a herd of 145 Stabiliser cows at Bodwi, near Pwllheli, and had historically finished half their bull beef animals themselves and the others at a specialist unit in Yorkshire.
As a...
Ewe lambs can eat 3% of liveweight per day on well managed Fodder beet
9 December 2020
Ewe lambs and yearlings can eat more than three per cent of their liveweight a day grazing fodder beet but the crop must have good leaf cover and be correctly allocated to achieve this intake for...