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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...

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

28 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Technological advancement is undergoing rapid and continual development within the agricultural sector
• Technologies are moving towards more environmental considerations as a new focus for the sector as a whole ...

15 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Regenerative agriculture aims to shift away from productivity and sustaining outputs towards the four R’s, renewal, recovery, replacement and repair of ecosystems.
• Many farmers already use individual regenerative practices...

9 April 2021

Grassland management on Welsh farms has been transformed in a decade with one beef farmer describing rotational grazing as an ‘absolute game-changer’ for his business.

Paul Williams, who runs a suckler herd at Cae Haidd, Llanrwst...

18 March 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Dung beetles are nature's bin men, removing waste and supporting its further breakdown
• Manure can be a key source of food for dung beetles, however, farm grazing and animal...

15 March 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• UAV development and the market for use is continuing to grow
• New regulations and legislations have been put in place which in many instances could facilitate easier use of...

26 February 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Reducing the C footprint of agriculture is imperative but also highly complex, with reductions in one area often causing a rise in another.
• A reduction in concentrate feed helps to...

18 February 2021

Dr David Cutress & Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Globally, applications of nitrogen (N) for plant growth are the single biggest source of nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions in the agriculture sector
• Nutrient...