Janet Roden will outline the work that has taken place in Wales on lowering the carbon footprint of sheep, and how farmers that are part of the Welsh Sheep Genetics Programme with Farming Connect can get involved.
Suzanne Rowe is a Senior Researcher with AgResearch in New Zealand, and is the world expert in breeding sheep with a lower carbon footprint. Suzanne will outline the background of the work happening in NZ and the history behind developing...
Cennydd Jones is joined by Non Williams, Carbon Specialist Officer at Farming Connect.
This episode is based on the findings of carbon footprint audits completed on 185 beef and sheep farms through the Farming Connect Advisory Service. The purpose of...
Tom Tolputt is an organic farmer in Cornwall who's spent the last 25 years searching for the answer. The key to achieving sustainable farming systems for Tom, co-founder of TerraFarmer, a regenerative & biological farm consultancy is to build soil...
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...
This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...
During this programme, we’ll be catching up with some of the farmers who are taking part in EIP projects, to hear how they are trialling innovative ideas that can help with some of the challenges they face.
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Geraint Davies of Fedw Arian Uchaf Farm near Bala shares what he’s been doing to improve the environmental and economic performance of his farm from planting new hedgerows to incorporating rotational grazing and trialling agroforestry. Also on the podcast is...
Demonstration Sites, located throughout Wales, share examples of best practice, innovation and new technologies.
Focus Sites demonstrate ‘one-off’ projects on a wide range of topics these are to help address opportunities or problems facing the industry.
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Following the COP26 summit, world action must begin to achieve the target of net-zero by 2050.
Already making a positive contribution, our industry can go further and Farming Connect is here to help every farming and forestry business in Wales...
