News and Events

26 May 2021

Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. 

Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...

24 May 2021

Early indications from a Farming Connect project have shown that intensive rotational grazing in sheep systems increases soil organic matter (SOM).

Pendre, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, near Aberystwyth, is aiming to...

21 May 2021

Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Natural capital is the part of nature that delivers goods and services of value to human societies.
• Increasingly, the value of natural capital is being incorporated...

20 May 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
• For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...

19 May 2021

A group of Welsh farmers are embarking on carbon audits to understand the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) they are producing and to inform an action plan to reduce emissions if needed. 

The farmers are all...

Join Farming Connect and guest speakers Prysor Williams Bangor University, and Liz Genever, independent beef and sheep specialist to learn more about carbon footprinting and how to reduce on-farm emissions by improving production efficiencies.

The webinar will also provide an...

Join Farming Connect at Pendre demonstration farm where you can hear from farmer Tom Evans about his farming system and learn more about current projects on improving leys and increasing soil organic matter. We will also be joined by grassland...