21 October 2022
A Welsh dairy farm is taking back control of future herd health and performance by rearing its own heifer replacements.
The Jarman family had operated a flying herd policy for 12 years, purchasing all their replacements...
Welcome to this edition of FCTV where we will visit farmers who have set out to look carefully at their production costs and undertake changes towards these.
This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2022 - April 2022.
Richard Rees
Farm name and location: Penmaen Bach, Pennal, Machynlleth
Sector: Red Meat (Sheep)
Being lightly stocked, we have been lucky over the last couple of months; we have managed to keep average farm cover fairly consistent around 2200kgDM/ha, with...
27th of September 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
27/09/2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
22/09/2022
Welsh farms are losing 5t/acre of soil every time the thickness equivalent of a one-pence coin is eroded from fields left bare in the winter.
“That soil isn’t replaced, and that’s your livelihoods being washed away; you need...
This episode will be the first in a series introduced by a range of guest presenter on a variety of topics from Welsh Agriculture and beyond. The first guest presenter will be a familiar voice to the podcast, Rhys Williams...
20 September 2022
Monitoring ewes and managing their body condition score (BCS) has helped to reduce the rate of barren and aborted ewes by 6.4% in a Welsh flock, helping to lift profit margin by £3.34 a ewe to...
