17 May 2022
A Welsh study has refocused attention on strategies for reducing ammonia emissions in the poultry sector, with farmers urged to adopt measures including good ventilation and litter and manure management protocols to lower levels.
A three-year...
16 May 2022
“Farming is a fast-moving, progressive industry so there is always new science we need to be aware of and innovative, more efficient ways of doing things,” says Kim Brickell, a farm manager at one of Wales’...
Folly Farm manager Kim Brickell always turns to Farming Connect when she wants to learn a new skill!
With the potato planting season well underway in Pembrokeshire, we caught up with Euros Davies - a relative newcomer to the business of growing potatoes. On his family’s block of land near Milford Haven, he’s been busy planting potatoes ready...
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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12 April 2022
A trial carried out on Welsh grassland farms has shown that foliar fertiliser can increase nitrogen use efficiency by up to four times compared to conventional N fertiliser.
Foliar feeding is a technique of feeding plants...
This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2021 - November 2021.
1 April 2022
A lamb producer who is pioneering methods of improving the persistency and quality of grazing leys on marginal land in the Welsh uplands has won a major new grassland management award.
John Yeomans, who is involved...
29 March 2022
A Welsh sheep farmer says achieving carbon efficiencies in agriculture must be balanced against the need for farm businesses to be productive and profitable.
Rhys Edwards, who runs a flock of 530 ewes and 180 ewe...
