Sarah Evans, Watery Lane Produce - 11/11/2022
Seeds of ambition – how a farming entrepreneur turned her ‘lockdown’ gardening hobby into a new home-based veg box delivery business.
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Seeds of ambition – how a farming entrepreneur turned her ‘lockdown’ gardening hobby into a new home-based veg box delivery business
11 November 2022
Setting up a new business growing, supplying and delivering boxes of fresh local produce has been a fast but rewarding learning curve for Sarah Evans. Sarah is the proud owner of Watery Lane Produce, a small...
Trial shows quality grazing has greater effect on lamb growth than trace element supplements
10 November 2022
A Farming Connect trial has shown a cost benefit of up to £3.36/head from supplementing lambs with trace elements post-weaning; however, grass availability and parasite control had the biggest influence on the performance of animals in...
Episode 72-Tree planting working for a 500 cow dairy unit at Hendre Llwyn y Maen
Hendre Llwyn y Maen is a hill farm of approximately 400 acres with additional in buy land rising up to 1100ft above sea level . Robin Crossley, the owner, is a keen environmentalist and values the woodlands as an important...
Horticulture: May 2021 – June 2022
This dashboard outlines horticulture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May 2021 - June 2022.
Calf pneumonia cases down to 10% after housing adjustments
1 November 2022
Adjusting housing and feed intakes around weaning has helped a Welsh calf-rearer significantly reduce incidence of pneumonia.
Hugh Jones and his mother, Glenys, who farm at Pentre Farm, Pentrecelyn, source Aberdeen Angus bull calves from Buitelaar...
Gwarmacwydd - Venture - 28/10/2022
Wanted! Keen, capable and competent farmer, committed to sustainable farming, for a share-farming opportunity in West Wales
Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded...
Wanted! Keen, capable and competent farmer, committed to sustainable farming, for a share-farming opportunity in West Wales
27 October 2022
Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded? Would you like the opportunity to be a share partner helping develop that...
The simpler the mix, the better a herbal ley performs, Welsh trial shows
25 October 2022
A herbal ley incorporating fewer species has been found to perform better than a more diverse seed mix with 17 plant varieties, during a trial on a Farming Connect demonstration site.
Aled and Dylan Jones and...
