News and Events

8 November 2019

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Antibiotic growth promoters were banned in the EU in 2006 which has resulted in renewed interest in alternative, novel solutions to improving performance, efficiency and animal health.
• Essential oils from...

Feeding clover seed to sheep to improve permanent grassland

Oat production in diverse environments and managements conditions 

7 November 2019

Louise Radley: IBERS, Aberystwyth University. 

• New legislation targets require petrol to be blended with 9.75% bioethanol by 2020, requiring increased bioenergy crop production while not impacting food crop production
• Miscanthus can thrive on marginal land and...

7 November 2019

The application window for the Prosper from Pasture Programme is now open, and will be open until 12pm, 9 December.

It is recognised that farm area is the first physical limiting factor on potential business output...

4 November 2019

Farming Connect offers advice to support businesses to become more versatile and to be able to adapt to change.

Jeremy Moody, CAAV (Central Association of Agricultural Valuers) will be the main speaker at the event. Jeremy...

This episode comes from an area called Adfa near Newtown, the home of John Yeomans and his family at Llwyn y Brain Farm. John farms in partnership with his wife, Sarah, and the farm extends to 284 acres. They keep...

31 October 2019

The priority areas of Farming Connect include Climate Change, Biodiversity, Forestry, Red Meat, Dairy, Grassland, Arable, Horticulture...

25 October 2019

Controlling docks could improve grass dry matter (DM)/hectare (ha) on Welsh grassland farms by over 10%.

Docks are one of the most economically damaging weeds in grassland, competing directly with grass and reducing yield, farmers...