News and Events
WEBINAR: Top tips for quality silage - 12/05/2020
Dave Davies from Silage Solutions discussing ideas on how to produce top quality silage.
- What influences the quality of silage?
- What management factors can be done to ensure good quality silage?
- What are the secrets in producing good silage?
Presentation...
The future of technologies for cattle fertility and calf health
12 May 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- The cattle industry is a key provider of food-produce globally through both meat and milk production
- Technologies are increasingly being used to improve both animal welfare and productivity of...
WEBINAR: Pig disease prevention and maximising performance - 07/05/2020
Pig vet and specialist, Bob Stevenson discovering the considerations needed to help prevent diseases on pig units.
- Current biosecurity risks to pig farms, with an emphasis on diseases such as African Swine Fever.
- Biosecurity management protocols such as quarantining and...
Bolus technology could shorten suckler herd calving period to 10 weeks
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...
What’s on? - 06/05/2020
This flyer will provide you further information on the services we have to support you during this
uncertain time, from one-to-one surgeries to informative podcasts – we have it covered.
WEBINAR: Managing the growing lamb - 05/05/2020
Lesley Stubbings, independent sheep consultant discussing lamb growth expectations up to weaning.
- What are we aiming for? The importance of setting targets of what growth development you’d like to see between 8 and 12 weeks.
- The impact worm control has...
Farming Connect’s online webinars help the industry ‘stay connected’ during the coronavirus lockdown
5 May 2020
Farming Connect is providing a series of short, informative twice-weekly online webinars – online group seminars or meetings - on a wide range of topical agricultural subjects as part of its ‘digital delivery’ provision, arranged in...
COVID 19 – Keeping children safe on the farm
4 May 2020
HSE is calling on the farming industry to keep their children safe whilst they stay at home during COVID-19 restrictions.
With schools closed, more children will be staying at home on the farms and the Health...