06 May 2025
Setting up and growing a successful new business is something many people will only ever dream about. Young farmer Cian Iolen Rhys says that Farming Connect’s Agri Academy Junior Programme gave him the confidence and life-skills to...
07 April 2025
Farmers across Pembrokeshire are proving that even in the most isolating of professions, no one has to face TB alone.
Recognising the profound impact of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on both their livestock and their personal wellbeing, in...
03 April 2025
Catch up with the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the finalists in the second series of ‘Our Dream Farm’, Channel 4’s popular tv programme, who are currently on our screens at 7pm on Saturday evenings; the ‘dream...
28 November 2024
It has been a remarkable trajectory for farmer Cheryl Reeves in the six years since she utilised Farming Connect’s Agrisgôp programme to first explore the seed of her farm business diversification idea.
That business, the community interest...
23 July 2024
Farming Connect launch a recruitment campaign for a new Agrisgôp group that will get ‘ahead of the game’ by developing the concept of using games to facilitate farm succession.
In the last twelve months, Farming...
31 August 2023
Dairy farmers rate peer-to-peer learning as one of the most valuable routes to tackling lameness in their herds, an important new study in Wales involving more than 5,400 cows has found.
The research was undertaken as...
19 August 2021
The past two days, Minister for Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths, has met with representatives from Farming Connect’s demonstration and innovation project sites and service users in Mid and South West Wales.
Discussing projects undertaken, innovation and...
12 July 2021
Annyalla Chicks Ltd is a family run business in the poultry industry in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, specialising in producing day-old chicks.
Through the Farming Connect Venture programme, this poultry business is hoping...
11 December 2020
If coronavirus has scuppered your plans for Christmas shopping, don’t despair! An enterprising group of young women from North Wales may have the perfect solution. If your nearest and dearest are involved with farming or rural...
23 November 2020
‘Damara Môn’ will next week become the latest Anglesey based speciality brand to hit the food scene, offering a new and distinctive eating experience that has already got people across the UK showing interest.
“In many...
