What’s on? - 06/05/2020
This flyer will provide you further information on the services we have to support you during this
uncertain time, from one-to-one surgeries to informative podcasts – we have it covered.
News and Events
WEBINAR: Managing the growing lamb - 05/05/2020
Lesley Stubbings, independent sheep consultant discussing lamb growth expectations up to weaning.
- What are we aiming for? The importance of setting targets of what growth development you’d like to see between 8 and 12 weeks.
- The impact worm control has...
Farming Connect’s online webinars help the industry ‘stay connected’ during the coronavirus lockdown
5 May 2020
Farming Connect is providing a series of short, informative twice-weekly online webinars – online group seminars or meetings - on a wide range of topical agricultural subjects as part of its ‘digital delivery’ provision, arranged in...
COVID 19 – Keeping children safe on the farm
4 May 2020
HSE is calling on the farming industry to keep their children safe whilst they stay at home during COVID-19 restrictions.
With schools closed, more children will be staying at home on the farms and the Health...
Blog - Potato planting with Puffin Produce
01 May 2020
Potato planting is well under way in Pembrokeshire where 32 farmer growers are planting over 1100ha of 31 different varieties for Puffin Produce destined to supply supermarkets all over Wales for the coming year. Sold as supermarket own...
Grazing infrastructure considerations during periods beyond the normal routine
1 May 2020
Simon Pitt, Dairy Technical Officer
Herds with excellent housing facilities often don't have the same level of grazing infrastructure in preparation for occasions where they need to extensively graze their cows during periods above and beyond...
Episode 17 - Forage Crop Options with Marc Jones - 01/05/2020
In this episode Jim Ellis speaks to Marc Jones, a well known Forage crop and out-wintering specialist and farms 500 acres at Trefnant Hall on the Powis Estate near Welshpool. He grows 50 to 60 acres of Fodder beet annually...
“Farming Connect helped us make our business more efficient, more sustainable and more profitable,” says a busy wife, mum, karate champion, bio-chemist and farmer from North Wales!
1 May 2020
Cheryl Reeves is a farmer, wife and mum who has a hectic work/life balance that would daunt many of us! A qualified bio-chemist, she moved to a new job in north Wales in 2006 and soon...
WEBINAR: Dealing with too little or too much grass - 30/04/2020
Liz Genever, independent beef and sheep consultant discussing variable grass growth this spring.
- Making sure ewe and cow requirements are being met during lactation to maximise growth rates
- Understanding which options (e.g. rotational grazing, supplementary feeding, nitrogen use and prioritising...
Can Precision Farming Help Mitigate Climate Change?
29 April 2020
David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Agriculture 4.0 or Precision farming is the current farming trend which uses technologies, to monitor and act, on individual farm assets in a targeted way
- Precision farming has the potential...