News and Events

Welsh agriculture has a good environmental story to tell, but there's more to be done. 

Recognising how genetic advances, grassland management, animal health improvement, tree planting, better fertiliser application, and a host of other measures can lead to more profitable...

21 July 2020

A beef farm has added more than £100 a head to income from suckler bull calves by finishing them intensively at 13 months instead of selling as stores.

Pressure from bovine TB movement restrictions forced Huw...

To prevent trace element deficiencies in growing lambs, most farmers now use many different methods of supplementing trace elements; from slow release boluses to oral drenches. A recent trial was conducted at a Farming Connect focus site (Pentre Farm in...

John Richards, Hybu Cig Cymru provides an update on the current beef and lamb market in Wales.

This webinar links the ways of obtaining improved health in your pigs with the clear effects on their contentment and happiness.

The commentary highlights the three most important and straightforward ways of improving pig health on all participants' enterprises, improve performance...

Join Farming Connect and pig farmers, Kyle Holford and Lauren Smith from Forest Coalpit Farm to discover how they got into pig farming since moving from London to their 20 acre holding in the Brecon Beacons, in 2014.

Both Kyle...

Join us for a session looking at market trends of pork, chicken and eggs. 

A representative from Kantar talks us through some of the consumer knowledge and insights they have found, specifically looking at products associated with the pig and poultry...