News and Events

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May – July 2024.

30 April 2024

Farming Connect has launched a new set of online modules based around practices that maintain the productivity and health of farmland and livestock in a sustainable way, to help Welsh farmers as they make the transition...

29 April 2024

An eagerness to learn new skills and knowledge is helping mother and son Dianna and Iestyn Spary to continually improve their livestock farming enterprise and build a financially sustainable business fit for the future.

Technical expertise and...

Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, KEHub, Aberystwyth University.

April 2024

Phytoremediation is a green technology that involves the use of plants to remove toxic components or contaminants from either the air, within soil or from aqueous solutions.

Phytoremediation offers the potential...

25 April 2024

A Pembrokeshire spring-calving dairy farm is introducing a new feeding system for newborn calves in what is to be thought the first trial of its kind in a large-scale herd.

Will and Alex Prichard are feeding...

23 April 2024

Five years on from a quad bike accident that fractured Beca Glyn’s skull, wearing a safety helmet is programmed into her subconscious, and is as familiar to her as wearing a car seatbelt. 

On...

18 April 2024

Deryl and Frances Jones of Rhyd Y Gofaint, Ceredigion, are leading the way in sustainable agriculture with a research project exploring the potential of white clover to improve nitrogen use efficiency and boost milk and meat...

16 April 2024

A Welsh upland dairy farming business is aiming to accelerate its move away from a reliance on nitrogen fertiliser for growing grass by growing herbal ley mixes.

Taking on the long-term tenancy of 48ha Maes Dulas...