Biodiversity on Pentre Demonstration Farm - 13/07/2021
"Biodiversity on our farms" Forging a clear connection between habitat management on farm working hand in hand with food production whilst improving the environmental performance of our farms.
News and Events
How can changing land management approaches help to achieve net zero?
4 June 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current land management approaches will need to change in order to meet the challenges associated with net zero emissions.
- This will include increasing land management practices...
Reducing emissions and improving biodiversity can go hand in hand with making your business more profitable
26 May 2021
Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...
Using a natural capital approach to value land management approaches
21 May 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Natural capital is the part of nature that delivers goods and services of value to human societies.
- Increasingly, the value of natural capital is being incorporated...
Sustainable agriculture: Meaningful metrics and motivations
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...
Land: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
WEBINAR: Carbon myth busting on livestock farms - 04/05/2021
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...
Natural regeneration replacing harvested trees in farm woodland
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...
FC - Issue 32 - March/April 2021
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...