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Dr Elizabeth Hart: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Precision livestock farming aims to increase animal productivity, improve animal welfare and health, whilst reducing environmental impact.
• The improvement of animal productivity is achieved using real time monitoring and management systems...

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...

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...

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...

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...