21 March 2018
The Farming Connect mentoring programme has been running for two years and over 100 farmers and foresters have already used the service, totalling over 750 hours of peer to peer support. To address growing demand, the...
21 March 2018
He’s a chartered surveyor and rural valuer, a Nuffield scholar, a local radio presenter and in agricultural circles,
he’s in demand at home and internationally as a public speaker too! Now, Carmarthenshire farmer’s son Aled Rhys...
28 March 2018
As soaring straw prices add to production costs on Welsh sheep farms, slatted housing can offer a solution but its advantages must be balanced against the initial outlay.
During a Farming Connect event at Nant...
14 March 2018
A Pembrokeshire arable grower is hoping to boost yields and produce more even crops after mapping soils to allow seed rate application to be matched to land type.
Soil type in a single field can vary...
13 March 2018
Compact TMR, which involves soaking concentrates in a TMR in water and pre-mixing, was trialed in the dairy herd at Llysfasi College, a Farming Connect Innovation Site.
The unit manages its herd of all-the-year-round calving Holstein...
8 March 2018
It may not feel like it in parts of the UK hit by ‘The Beast from the East’ and Storm Emma, but spring is just around the corner – and with it the annual deadly threat...
