News and Events
Virtual Innovation and Diversification week – 19/10/2020
14 October 2020
Farming Connect invites you to add value to your business, invest in your future, be part of the success story through a series of webinars:
20/10/2020, 11:00- Treehouses: Our diversification journey
Laura Lewis will be...
WEBINAR: What can Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) tools and techniques offer livestock farmers? - 12/10/2020
Performance recording and benchmarking are key for success in the livestock sector but what additional value can PLF offer?
This webinar introduces farmers and industry practitioners to the concept of PLF, and the challenges and opportunities that it brings.
A...
Nanotechnology and agriculture: Could smaller mean better?
12 October 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Nanotechnology is already playing roles in modern agriculture and could have further implementation in the future
- More research is needed to determine the environmental impacts of specific usage of...
Farming Connect’s Innovation and Diversification week
9 October 2020
With the combined uncertainty of Brexit and impacts of COVID-19, the need to encourage and release the dynamism of rural areas is now greater than ever.
Farming Connect is now seeking to nurture innovative ideas at...
Grass central to suckler farmer’s new dairy-to-beef enterprise
8 October 2020
A dairy-to-beef calf rearing and finishing enterprise is utilising grass more efficiently and maintaining sward quality since establishing a rotational system of grazing.
Neil Davies and his family had been running a suckler beef herd at...
Changing egg buying choices could cut ammonia levels in free-range systems
8 October 2020
Today on Clean Air Day a Farming Connect study has found that consumers can help egg producers reduce ammonia levels by switching their buying choices from extra-large brown eggs to white, slightly smaller eggs.
Farmer Llyr...
Part 1: Greenhouse gas emissions & environmental impacts of the poultry industry
8 October 2020
Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- The poultry industry has seen huge growth and advancement in the past few decades, with the UK currently producing 1.7 million tonnes of chicken meat and 11.4 million eggs.
- Whilst...