Red Meat: January 2021 – April 2021
This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2021 - April 2021.
News and Events
FC - Issue 33 - May/June 2021
Below is the 33rd issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.
Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from our...
How can changing land management approaches help to achieve net zero?
4 June 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current land management approaches will need to change in order to meet the challenges associated with net zero emissions.
- This will include increasing land management practices...
Gene editing and agriculture
3 June 2021
Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- In response to DEFRA’s consultation on the regulation of genetic technologies in English agriculture, gene editing (GE) has become a popular topic of conversation.
- GE encompasses a variety of...
Providing environmental goods could increase financial resilience of Welsh sheep farms
27 May 2021
Welsh sheep farmers are being urged to embrace good grazing management and rotational grazing to help the industry become more environmentally sustainable.
Dr Catherine Nakielny has used the Farming Connect Management Exchange Programme as an opportunity...
Reducing emissions and improving biodiversity can go hand in hand with making your business more profitable
26 May 2021
Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...
Rotational grazing shown to increase soil organic matter on Welsh farm
24 May 2021
Early indications from a Farming Connect project have shown that intensive rotational grazing in sheep systems increases soil organic matter (SOM).
Pendre, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, near Aberystwyth, is aiming to...
Sustainable agriculture: Meaningful metrics and motivations
20 May 2021
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
- For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...
Welsh farmers embark on carbon audits to inform emissions decisions
19 May 2021
A group of Welsh farmers are embarking on carbon audits to understand the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) they are producing and to inform an action plan to reduce emissions if needed.
The farmers are all...
WEBINAR: Reducing your farm's carbon footprint - how are others achieving it? - 13/05/2021
Join Farming Connect and guest speakers Prysor Williams Bangor University, and Liz Genever, independent beef and sheep specialist to learn more about carbon footprinting and how to reduce on-farm emissions by improving production efficiencies.
The webinar will also provide an...