News and Events
A Welsh dairy farm is companion cropping maize with sunflowers to reduce its purchased protein costs.
25 September 2024
Dyfrig and Elin Griffiths and their son, Llyr, produce milk from 500 pedigree Holsteins at Tafarn y Bugail, near Cardigan, growing most of the feed that goes into the Total Mixed Ration (TMR).
They grow 165 acres...
Funded Farming Connect services lightens financial burden for family farm
09 September 2024
Investing in skills training and business advice can be expensive for a family farm, but securing subsided and fully-funded Farming Connect courses and services has lightened the financial burden for a third-generation Radnorshire poultry...
Free e-learning modules build knowledge and skills on family farm
27 August 2024
Biodiversity is at the heart of Peter and Cathryn Richards’ approach to farming, enriching the environment for insects and farmland birds with an abundance of wildflowers and grass species on their land.
The brother and sister...
Episode 107 - Lameness in Dairy Cattle: Episode 2
Sara Pedersen visits Maenhir Farm, Whitland where father and son Richard and Iwan Twose host a Agrisgôp Group meeting. We join Sara and the Pembrokeshire based group farms to hear on how they draw on other group members and share...
The Importance of Keeping Children Safe on Farms
Wales Farm Safety Partnership, alongside Lantra Cymru has created a new e-learning course. ‘Children on Farms’ will give you guidance on keeping children safe on your farm during the upcoming summer holidays.
This course, taking roughly 45 minutes to complete...
Episode 105 - Fferm Glascoed - Improving Efficiency
Another opportunity to hear a discussion during this event at Glascoed farm. The sheep expert, Kate Phillips will lead the discussion between Alwyn and Dylan Nutting and talk about the findings of the review carried out at...
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies will hear how Farming Connect’s ‘Start to Farm’ scheme is safeguarding the future prosperity of family farms in Wales at this year’s Royal Welsh Show
18 July 2024
“Matching landowners wanting or needing to step back from the industry with younger farmers or new entrants keen to gain a foothold in farming is not only invigorating and modernising Welsh agriculture but also safeguarding the future...