News and Events
Mutual interest in protecting farm water supply leads to mentoring partnership
30 January 2025
The ripple effect of positive change is being experienced on farms and other agri-businesses across Wales thanks to the Farming Connect Mentoring programme.
Farmers like Dai Evershed, who benefitted from the guidance and expertise of a friend...
Welsh farmers warned over risks from deadly gases in slurry
28 January 2025
With a little-known deadly gas emitted by slurry responsible for fatalities in farming every year, the Wales Farmer Safety Partnership (WFSP) is raising awareness of the risks that exist, even in open spaces.
Hydrogen sulphide can be...
Funding window to re-open for on-farm trials in Wales
20 Jannuary 2025
With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing lucerne in Brecon to establishing sunflowers as a companion crop with maize, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from the initiative that brought...
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, congratulates ‘the best of the best’ for the Lantra Cymru Awards 2024
17 January 2025
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, has congratulated each of the winners and nominees for the Lantra Cymru Awards 2024. Attending this year’s awards celebration event (16...
Farming Connect roadshow to advise farmers on succession planning and proposed IHT relief cut
8 January 2025
As Welsh farming families consider the implications of the UK government’s plan to limit 100% agricultural and business relief for inheritance tax (IHT) to the first £1m of value, Farming Connect is launching a roadshow of...
Discussion group membership helps family farm utilise fresh ideas
12 December 2024
A small-scale pedigree beef producer is capitalising on his limited resources by utilising best practice ideas gained from a network of fellow farmers brought together by Farming Connect as a discussion group.
Peter Lowe, who farms with...
Farming Connect sampling highlights opportunities to improve soil health on Welsh farms
11 December 2024
Many Welsh farms are missing out on grass yield potential because they fall short on pH and key macronutrients (P, K, Mg), a Farming Connect report of agricultural soils has shown.
More than 3,000 soil samples were...
Farmers advised to set emissions reduction targets that work for their own systems
11 December 2024
Marginal gains achieved from multiple factors, ranging from increasing scanning and rearing percentages to finishing lambs earlier, will combine to both reduce emissions and increase profitability in Welsh sheep flocks.
Many of the key performance indicators (KPIs)...
New practices rolled out on family farm supported by Farming Connect
2 December 2024
A Welsh family farm has been encouraged to introduce new practices, from artificially inseminating beef cattle to growing new crops, incentivised by Farming Connect-funded training and discussion groups.
Iwan and Rhian Evans and their son, Dyfan, produce...