19 January 2022
This week, the National Centre for Learning Welsh and Menter a Busnes have launched a new online Learn Welsh course for the agricultural sector.
The 10-hour short course, part of the Centre’s ‘Work Welsh’ scheme, is...
19 January 2022
Beccie Williams is a wife, a mum to three young children and now a full-time poultry farmer too. Beccie and her husband Matthew took over his parents’ tenanted beef and sheep farm in Llanbister, near Llandrindod...
This dashboard outlines poultry key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between October 2020 - September 2021.
25 November 2021
A Welsh business whose automated spraying systems have resulted in significant improvements in the housing environment of chickens at a Farming Connect demonstration site has won a major new award for innovation.
Pruex’s work at Wern...
Below is the 36th 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...
10 November 2021
The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has got the world talking about global warming, climate change and the need for every country in the world to reduce its carbon footprint.
Every day this week...
In episode 50, we meet the well-known farmer, writer and podcaster; Will Penri Evans. Will farms with his wife and four daughters at Lower Eyton Farm near Wrexham. He’s become a high-profile figure within UK agriculture through hosting the Rock...
30 September 2021
Adding non-infective bacteria to the environment of poultry sheds to dry out litter and reduce ammonia levels has the potential to help farms meet the challenges of new Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) regulations...
Young poultry farmers avoid falling ‘fowl’ of the rules thanks to guidance from Farming Connect!
21 September 2021
When young farmers Dan and Cath Price hatched a plan for their own large-scale poultry enterprise at the family farm in Llaithddu, near Newtown, they turned to Farming Connect for the support and specialist knowledge they...
