Join Farming Connect and Charlie Morgan, Grassmaster to discuss the importance of reseeding and how to deal with any problems that you may come across.
Farming Connect is responding to the current restrictions of Covid-19 by providing as many
services as it can either online or over the phone until normal face to face activities can resume.
The following guidance on using Zoom webinars, Skype...
2 June 2020
An intensive bull beef finishing system could help a Ceredigion suckler enterprise add value to cattle.
Huw and Meinir Jones want to maximise herd efficiency, productivity and profitability at Bryn, a Farming Connect demonstration site near...
1 June 2020
The recent prolonged spell of dry weather has led to some of Farming Connect’s Dairy demonstration sites needing to adjust their feeding and silage making regime to cope with low soil moisture levels.
Grass growth rates...
1 June 2020
Demand is increasing for on-farm family experiences and with Halloween falling around the school half term break, growing pumpkins and inviting the local community to your farm to pick their own pumpkins can be a rewarding...
Here is the second webinar in a series of dairy lunchtime webinars.
The milking liner is the only part of the milking machine that's in contact with the cow. As such, the properties of the liner have a big impact...
28 May 2020
8 million allocated for establishing woodland in Wales.
A budget of £8million has been allocated to 9th EOI round for GWC. The window opened on the 16th March 2020 and will close at midnight 31st July...
In this episode Aled is joined by farmer Hugo Edwards from Newport, Gwent, and Richard Gibb a Farming Connect Mentor that has been working to improve milk production from forage by implementing a multi cut silage system. Hear how the...
27 May 2020
Chris Duller, Soils and Grassland Specialist
Normally in late May, grass would be approaching peak growth, with growth rates of over 100kgDM/ha/day being achieved and concerns would be about grass getting away from stock. The...
