11 May 2018
Farming Connect’s campaign to support Welsh farmers with improving water quality has reached Anglesey; two events have been held to outline the support available from Farming Connect and to highlight how farmers can reduce agricultural pollution...
10 May 2018
Soil nutrient mapping is allowing a Pembrokeshire arable and livestock farm to adjust its fertiliser application rate within a single field – targeting higher inputs on areas with a poor nutrient status and reducing inputs on...
4 May 2018
Following this winter’s trials and tribulations (I won’t mention the spring we haven’t had!), good management at weaning will be critical. As a result of persistently wet weather and cases of extreme weather, 2017/18 has been...
4 May 2018
The first out of a series of meetings aimed at tackling water pollution has been held by Farming Connect near Pendine on the Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire border.
Twenty-eight waterbodies in Wales have been identified as not...
4 May 2018
The second, out of a series of meetings aimed at tackling water pollution has been held by Farming Connect in St Asaph, for farmers farming near the river Gele.
Twenty-eight waterbodies in Wales have been identified...
1 May 2018
Farming Connect is coordinating an industry-led initiative to tackle pollution from agriculture head-on in Wales.
The Wales Land Management Forum’s sub-group on agricultural pollution – a body incorporating Natural Resources Wales, Welsh Government, Farming Unions and...
30 April 2018
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
30 April 2018
Following a busy calving period at Fferam Gyd, Llyr Hughes can now reflect on his first experience of oestrus synchronization in his commercial herd at the Farming Connect focus site. Having previously used synchronization as a...
