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Feeding clover seed to sheep to improve permanent grassland

7 November 2019

Louise Radley: IBERS, Aberystwyth University. 

• New legislation targets require petrol to be blended with 9.75% bioethanol by 2020, requiring increased bioenergy crop production while not impacting food crop production
• Miscanthus can thrive on marginal land and...

7 November 2019

The application window for the Prosper from Pasture Programme is now open, and will be open until 12pm, 9 December.

It is recognised that farm area is the first physical limiting factor on potential business output...

25 October 2019

Controlling docks could improve grass dry matter (DM)/hectare (ha) on Welsh grassland farms by over 10%.

Docks are one of the most economically damaging weeds in grassland, competing directly with grass and reducing yield, farmers...

Aled Jones and Jim Ellis will be finding out more about the benefits of rotational grazing with James Daniels of Precision Grazing and visiting Rhidian Glyn at Rhiwgriafol Farm and Irwel Jones at Aberbranddu Farm.

Below is the 23rd 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...

11 September 2019

A Pembrokeshire dairy farmer is growing multi species leys to boost soil health and protect feed supply from dry conditions during the growing season.

Andrew Rees, a Farming Connect Demonstration Farmer, reseeded 5.7 hectares (ha)...

10 September 2019

“Multicut” is a term that has become widely used to describe a silage system which starts with an earlier first cut, followed by more frequent cuts throughout the summer. 

Why multicut?

The system allows the...

2 September 2019

Dr Shikha Ojha: IBERS, Aberystwyth University

• Insect farming can convert lower-value by-products from the agri-food industries into high-value materials, such as proteins, thus offering a sustainable alternative solution for underexploited resources.
• Efficient insect farming and...

29 August 2019

Geraint and Rachel Davies took over the family farm at Fedw Arian Uchaf, Bala, in 2011 but, because there had been no reseeding or nutrient management programme for over 20 years, grass production was poor...