News and Events

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April – June 2023

27 February 2023

His parents introduced him to the hands-on ‘land and livestock’ side of farming at an early age but for Carmarthenshire-born Dylan Morgan, it’s Farming Connect that keeps this construction management graduate ‘bang up to date’.  Dylan...

This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...

26 September 2022

Using ewe efficiency data to guide breeding decisions in a Welsh upland flock has demonstrated the value of performance-recording in hill breeds, as those figures show that the top performing females in the flock are rearing...

19 July 2022

Farmers will have access to important pan-Wales soil carbon benchmarking data for the first time, thanks to an ambitious new Farming Connect auditing initiative.

The initial results of the Welsh Soil Project are being shared with...

From front-line nurse to front-line farmer! This is Emma Roberts and daughter, Mari, who are an important part of ‘Team Roberts’ at Brynaeron, a 360 acre dairy, family farm in Pembrokeshire.

Keen to learn all they could about the livestock...

21 June 2021

Pembrokeshire-born Emma Roberts had a part-time job she loved at a busy GP surgery in Whitland. Therefore, why did qualified nurse Emma, who has been at the front-line of the profession for more than 30 years...

Iwan Davies, a beef and sheep farmer from Hafod y Maidd, Glasfryn, Corwen looks back at his time as a Farming Connect demonstration farmer and how he was able to make justified decisions to adapt his farming system based on...