News and Events

1 June 2018

If you’re focused, ambitious and keen to broaden your horizons, it could be time to check your passport!

Farming Connect has begun its search for focused and ambitious farmers and foresters keen to enhance their business...

Below is the 15th issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.

Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from...

25 May 2018

Farming Connect is able to support farmers and foresters in all financial aspects of managing profitable woodlands, whether they are considering woodland establishment, woodland management or are interested in developing their woodland business.

That was...

23 May 2018

Brenda Lewis from north Pembrokeshire has been a keen cook since studying catering in college. She says becoming an independent business woman would have been beyond her wildest dreams in those days, but with support...

Dr Elizabeth Hart: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• The application of alternative measures to reduce the reliance on anthelmintics to treat parasites in livestock are an important issue.
• The rate of larval migration upon pastures largely depends on the...

17 May 2018

Lamb producers in the Welsh uplands are being urged to consider planting new hedges and trees and

restore neglected woodland and hedges to increase shelter after one of the harshest springs on record has taken its...

16 May 2018

Dr Elizabeth Hart: Farming Connect Knowledge Exchange Hub, IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Current research aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly enteric methane.
• Methane production comes from a community of microbes within the...