News and Events

20 May 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
• For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...

This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

21 April 2021

A Denbighshire sheep farm is harvesting wood from its woodland to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees.

Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare (ha) woodland...

Below is the 32nd 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 our...

Below is the 31st 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 our...

A webinar to discover economic and environmental opportunities for farm businesses. Prof Davy MacCracken SRUC and Geraint Jones, Technical Forestry Officer for Farming Connect provides information on: 

1. Glastir small grants option
2. The multi benefits and gains when implementing Glastir options into...

This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2020 – November 2020.