News and Events
Red Meat: January 2022 - April 2022
This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2022 - April 2022.
Episode 70: Sustainable Farming Scheme- Delving deeper into the detail
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...
Scott Robinson - 30/09/2022
“There aren’t enough hours in the day” for entrepreneurial young Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson
“There aren’t enough hours in the day” for entrepreneurial young Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson
30 September 2022
“I would not be where I am today if it were not for Farming Connect,” says Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson. Scott (25) is ambitious, focused and also very busy! He works alongside his parents at...
A challenging season for the Welsh Pasture Project’s experienced grazing managers
Richard Rees
Farm name and location: Penmaen Bach, Pennal, Machynlleth
Sector: Red Meat (Sheep)
Being lightly stocked, we have been lucky over the last couple of months; we have managed to keep average farm cover fairly consistent around 2200kgDM/ha, with...
Hitting rock bottom: can silica rocks mitigate agricultural emissions?
27th of September 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Silicate and carbonate reactions could offer a route for long-term carbon storage
- Whilst issues surround carbonate minerals, silicates, like basalt rock, appear more promising
- Applying crushed silicates to agricultural...
Nitrogen and agriculture – where do we stand?
27/09/2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
- The development of synthetic nitrogen (N) production allowed a boom in agricultural yields and population growth worldwide
- Whilst N is growth-limiting, it is regularly applied at levels where less than half is...
Welsh farmers better informed to tackle cryptosporidium thanks to EIP Wales study
26 September 2022
Protocols to tackle persistent cryptosporidium infection impacting lamb and calf health and performance at a Welsh livestock farm are being informed by the findings of a European Innovation Programme (EIP) Wales project that pinpointed the source...
Top-performing ewes rearing double the average lamb weight in Welsh flock
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...