Dairy farmer, Rhys Williams, is a firm believer in developing and growing people – an ethos that’s enabled him to grow his enterprise to encompass over 2,000 acres and milking over 2,000 cows. Tune in to hear his story.
18 November 2021
A dairy-beef producer is hitting average daily liveweight gains of 1kg/day off grass on a rotational grazing system.
Neil Davies has overhauled his livestock system since becoming a Farming Connect demonstration farmer, switching from suckler beef...
17 November 2021
A Carmarthenshire dairy farm is improving silage quality by making small changes to clamp management.
Increasing clamp density has been a focus at Nantglas, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Talog, where milk producer Iwan...
Below is the 36th issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.
Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from...
Farming in a sustainable manner means making best use of all the farm’s natural resources. Grasslands have a fundamental role to play in achieving this aim with their innate ability for feeding livestock, supporting biodiversity and sequestering carbon.
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11 November 2021
Written by Rhys Williams, Precision Grazing Ltd
Preparation for spring is well under way at many grassland farms in Wales. Escalating concentrate feed and fertiliser prices means that ensuring a good supply of grass in...
Welsh farming practises are amongst some of the most sustainable and efficient in the world relying on abundant grass and rainfall and non-intensive methods. There is however more room to 'get greener' to reach the #NetZero target by 2050.
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10 November 2021
The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has got the world talking about global warming, climate change and the need for every country in the world to reduce its carbon footprint.
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