ENSURING ewes are in the right condition throughout the year and feeding them efficiently in order to maintain performance can have a significant impact on profitability and productivity. Maximising the use of forage can help drive down costs and offer...
For two Mid Wales farmers, signing up for Farming Connect’s prestigious personal development programme, the Agri Academy, when it was first launched by the Welsh Government in 2012, was the start of a new positive and more profitable phase of...
Andy Reeves is a full time insurance engineer, but as the son of successful beef farmers who have a smallholding near Wrexham, his long term goal has always been to earn his living from the land, together with his bio-chemist...
AS THE trend towards lighter beef carcases looks set to continue, farmers will have to adapt in order to produce the cattle needed to meet target specification. Formulating appropriate rations for cattle at different growth stages is one of the...
A Ceredigion farming family is challenging the traditional pathway of progression in the Welsh dairy sector. Arwel and Mary Davies and their son, Hywel, who milk 400 Holstein Friesians on three holdings, are offering a joint venture opportunity through Farming...
With courses ranging from financial recording and VAT returns to business planning and marketing and from animal health and rodent control to machinery handling – there could well be a training course which could help the way you work or manage...
The 2017 programme was launched in Cardiff Bay by the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths who said that the learning and development provided by the Agri Academy will pay massive dividends when it comes to...
Natalie Chappelle is the recently appointed Farming Connect development officer for Radnorshire.
Natalie grew up on a Breconshire farm which had been in her family for three generations and where she still helps out with the flock of...
VOLATILITY in the dairy sector has had a significant effect on businesses in the last few years and looks set to continue as global market forces influence the UK market. In order to safeguard your business against volatility it is...
