News and Events
Episode 102 - Getting the most of silage at lambing - planning and monitoring starts now - Part 2
Welcome to Ear to the Ground. This is a two part episode focusing on the information disseminated to farmers at a recent Farming Connect Event at Dylasau Uchaf, Padog, Dyffryn Conwy. If you haven’t yet listened to the previous episode...
Episode 101 - Getting the most of silage at lambing - planning and monitoring starts now - Part 1
In this two part episode we visit one of our focus farms involved on Our Farm Network. Beca Glyn and the family farm at Dylasau Uchaf, Padog, Dyffryn Conwy and has this year been working in collaboration with Farming Connect...
Support for Growers and Farmers at the Smallholding & Countryside Festival
13 May 2024
The Smallholding and Countryside Festival at the Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, is back on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 2024, where Farming Connect will be present to provide you with support and advice. Whether you...
Nut trial looks at viability of producing walnuts in Wales
08 May 2024
A Carmarthenshire couple are experimenting with growing nuts on their land.
Martyn Williams and Alison Harwood have planted walnut and sweet chestnut trees on a one-hectare south facing slope overlooking the River Towy.
They have chosen varieties...
Farming Connect ISSUE 5 - April-June 2024
Below is the 5th issue of the Farming Connect Technical Publication since the launch of the new programme in April 2023.
It includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters for farmers in Wales, allowing...
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle inputs, nutrients and waste May – July 2024
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May – July 2024.
New Farming Connect modules will help farmers transition to SFS
30 April 2024
Farming Connect has launched a new set of online modules based around practices that maintain the productivity and health of farmland and livestock in a sustainable way, to help Welsh farmers as they make the transition...
Farming Connect Animal Health and Welfare Workshops help family farm shape a business ‘fit for the future’
29 April 2024
An eagerness to learn new skills and knowledge is helping mother and son Dianna and Iestyn Spary to continually improve their livestock farming enterprise and build a financially sustainable business fit for the future.
Technical expertise and...
Transition milk trial targets calf health at Pembrokeshire dairy farm
25 April 2024
A Pembrokeshire spring-calving dairy farm is introducing a new feeding system for newborn calves in what is to be thought the first trial of its kind in a large-scale herd.
Will and Alex Prichard are feeding...