26 June 2018
If ever a period demonstrated a perfect definition of the effects of extreme weather conditions, it will be the complete metrological u-turn during the spring of 2018 and its effect on grassland management on Welsh livestock...
14 June 2018
Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths will address this year’s first Farming Connect Women in Agriculture forum, to be held at Bangor on Dee Racecourse on Thursday 21 June. The Cabinet Secretary...
Dr Elizabeth Hart: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
7 June 2018
The legacy of a young dairy farmer who died in tragic circumstances last year is set to live on as his father seeks a new entrant to farm the holding.
Owen Carlisle had built up a successful...
7 June 2018
A Welsh sheep breeder has made changes to his artificial insemination programme to further improve conception rates in his performance-recorded flock following a Farming Connect Management Exchange funded visit to Denmark and Sweden.
Alwyn Phillips, of...
4 June 2018
Wales’s prospective pigmeat producers are being urged to consider which market they intend to supply before establishing their herds.
With three very distinct pig types to choose from, each with desirable but different traits, specialist...
4 June 2018
A new technique which identifies the presence of mud snails infected with fluke by detecting their DNA in water is being used to help Welsh farms identify habitats with the greatest potential to infect livestock...
