Land: August 2020 – November 2020
This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2020 – November 2020.
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Livestock: August 2020 – November 2020
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2020 – November 2020.
Multiple small feeds better than one for ewes in later stage of pregnancy
4 January 2021
Sheep farmers should avoid feeding heavily pregnant ewes more than 0.5kg of concentrates in a single feed, a vet has advised.
A ewe’s daily nutrition requirements in the third trimester is best allocated over two feeds...
Episode 32 - Looking back at the 2020 Grazing Season - 18/12/2020
In this episode, Aled is joined by Sarah Morgan of Precision Grazing Ltd and Tomos Huws, a dairy farmer from Llanrwst, to talk about the Welsh Pasture Project. The project has been working with 43 farms across Wales to help...
Can Chicory hold key to higher lamb DLWG at Denbighshire sheep farm? - 18/12/2020
Non Williams our technical officer and Hugh Jones, Pentre Farm a Farming Connect Demonstration Sites reflects on the outcomes from the first year project.
Home-rearing bull beef on ad-lib concentrates and straw has worked out marginally cheaper for a Welsh suckler enterprise than out-sourcing the job to a finishing unit.
9 December 2020
The Griffith family run a herd of 145 Stabiliser cows at Bodwi, near Pwllheli, and had historically finished half their bull beef animals themselves and the others at a specialist unit in Yorkshire.
As a...
Ewe lambs can eat 3% of liveweight per day on well managed Fodder beet
9 December 2020
Ewe lambs and yearlings can eat more than three per cent of their liveweight a day grazing fodder beet but the crop must have good leaf cover and be correctly allocated to achieve this intake for...
Welsh Pasture Project beef farm extends its grazing season by two and a half months with better grassland management
3 December 2020
A family farm rearing beef heifers on marginal land in South Wales has shortened its winter by two and a half months since improving grassland management.
The John family buy 80 Limousin heifer calves a year...
Additional support to increase your efficiency and boost profits for all eligible land-based businesses in Wales
26 November 2020
Need help with a business plan, advice about adding value to your business by looking at your livestock, land or diversifying opportunities, or guidance to identify any issues which might be preventing your business from operating...