‘Plan for the future and never stop learning’ are the watchwords of two busy female farmers from North Wales who are committed to their own personal development. It has proved an award-winning doctrine which both are putting to good use...
Finding a way into farming should no longer be an insurmountable problem for some of the new or young entrants to farming who sign up for Farming Connect’s pioneering Venture programme.
Since it was launched in 2015, 285 individuals have...
An anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, matched in size to a farm’s needs, can allow Welsh poultry units to take control of their energy costs and benefit manure management.
Wales has seen a big expansion in poultry production in recent...
Upper Pendre is situated on the edge of the village of Llangorse near Brecon. It is a mixed dairy, beef and arable farm of 180 hectares (450 acres) of which half the ground is suitable for cropping. The farm rises...
A vending machine dispensing raw milk produced by one of the last remaining pedigree Ayrshire herds in South East Wales has helped to secure the future of that herd.
Robert and Kath Granville were almost forced out of business...
A Farming Connect project focussing on better use of home produced fertilisers shows how managing manure applications and testing soils nutrient status can improve productivity and profitability on Welsh soils.
The project, located at Lower Eyton Farm near Wrexham, focussed...
Aim high, do your research and try and identify a gap in the market, is the advice from one farming family from Pwllheli who have done just that!
Third generation farmer Alan Jones, wife Bethan and two sons Osian and...
Benchmarking against the top third performing farm businesses in Wales could be the catalyst to creating viable sustainable businesses for many farmers, according to Farming Connect.
This was reinforced by beef and sheep farmers Paul and Dwynwen Williams of...
Bryony Gittins needed no persuading when she had the opportunity to return to the family farm in Llanthony near Abergavenny, where she grew up helping her parents with the day to day running of the business. In their late teens...
