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WEBINAR: Woodland management methods to provide income and sustainability to farm woodlands - 03/06/2020
Join industry specialist, Phil Morgan from Sustainable Forest Management and SelectFor to discover ways of improving farm woodland management, and how alternative management techniques can add value to the woodland whilst continuing to improve the woodland environment.
Phil discusses silvicultural methodologies...
WEBINAR: Time to reseed - part 2 - 02/06/2020
Join Farming Connect and Charlie Morgan, Grassmaster to discuss the importance of reseeding and how to deal with any problems that you may come across.
- Examples of the common mistakes when reseeding
- How to avoid those problems occurring
- Consider the...
Meeting up online - 02/06/2020
Farming Connect is responding to the current restrictions of Covid-19 by providing as many
services as it can either online or over the phone until normal face to face activities can resume.
The following guidance on using Zoom webinars, Skype...
Bull beef finishing goes head to head with store production at Welsh farm
2 June 2020
An intensive bull beef finishing system could help a Ceredigion suckler enterprise add value to cattle.
Huw and Meinir Jones want to maximise herd efficiency, productivity and profitability at Bryn, a Farming Connect demonstration site near...
The effects of drought on Welsh dairy farms
1 June 2020
The recent prolonged spell of dry weather has led to some of Farming Connect’s Dairy demonstration sites needing to adjust their feeding and silage making regime to cope with low soil moisture levels.
Grass growth rates...
Growing pumpkins for Halloween
1 June 2020
Demand is increasing for on-farm family experiences and with Halloween falling around the school half term break, growing pumpkins and inviting the local community to your farm to pick their own pumpkins can be a rewarding...
WEBINAR: Liner choice: how to find the right milking liner for your herd - 28/05/2020
Here is the second webinar in a series of dairy lunchtime webinars.
The milking liner is the only part of the milking machine that's in contact with the cow. As such, the properties of the liner have a big impact...
The Glastir woodland creation expression of interest window has been extended to 31 July 2020.
28 May 2020
8 million allocated for establishing woodland in Wales.
A budget of £8million has been allocated to 9th EOI round for GWC. The window opened on the 16th March 2020 and will close at midnight 31st July...