FCTV - Input costs - 17/10/2022
Welcome to this edition of FCTV where we will visit farmers who have set out to look carefully at their production costs and undertake changes towards these.
News and Events
Red Meat: January 2022 - April 2022
This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2022 - April 2022.
Episode 70: Sustainable Farming Scheme- Delving deeper into the detail
This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...
A challenging season for the Welsh Pasture Project’s experienced grazing managers
Richard Rees
Farm name and location: Penmaen Bach, Pennal, Machynlleth
Sector: Red Meat (Sheep)
Being lightly stocked, we have been lucky over the last couple of months; we have managed to keep average farm cover fairly consistent around 2200kgDM/ha, with...
Hitting rock bottom: can silica rocks mitigate agricultural emissions?
27th of September 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Silicate and carbonate reactions could offer a route for long-term carbon storage
- Whilst issues surround carbonate minerals, silicates, like basalt rock, appear more promising
- Applying crushed silicates to agricultural...
Nitrogen and agriculture – where do we stand?
27/09/2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
- The development of synthetic nitrogen (N) production allowed a boom in agricultural yields and population growth worldwide
- Whilst N is growth-limiting, it is regularly applied at levels where less than half is...
Welsh farmers better informed to tackle cryptosporidium thanks to EIP Wales study
26 September 2022
Protocols to tackle persistent cryptosporidium infection impacting lamb and calf health and performance at a Welsh livestock farm are being informed by the findings of a European Innovation Programme (EIP) Wales project that pinpointed the source...
Episode 68 - 'The three elements of sustainable farming, Profit, Planet and People' with Rhys Williams and Aled Picton Evans
This episode will be the first in a series introduced by a range of guest presenter on a variety of topics from Welsh Agriculture and beyond. The first guest presenter will be a familiar voice to the podcast, Rhys Williams...
Beef farmer launches direct meat sales business after Farming Connect-funded study
16 August 2022
A suckler beef producer who has established a direct sales business for meat produced by her family’s Red Ruby Devon herd says farmers who adopt grazing techniques to grow cattle slowly need to be incentivised with...