News and Events

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2019 – March 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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...