Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Take home messages:
Simple milking parlour adjustments costing just 50p a cow are helping a Pembrokeshire dairy farming partnership improve teat hygiene and milk quality, and reduce annual concentrate costs by up to £30,345.
The Harris family milk 350 Holstein Friesian grazing-type cows...
Heidi Curtis has set her sights on being a successful farmer. Whether this ambitious young woman achieves that by helping develop her parent’s 200 acre dairy enterprise at Higher Kinnerton in Flintshire or by looking for work further afield remains to...
This Sheep discussion group have focused their time in the first year on getting their soils right and focusing on grass growth. The group undertook a grass growth trial on one of the group member’s farm between April and June...
ENSURING ewes are in the right condition throughout the year and feeding them efficiently in order to maintain performance can have a significant impact on profitability and productivity. Maximising the use of forage can help drive down costs and offer...
For two Mid Wales farmers, signing up for Farming Connect’s prestigious personal development programme, the Agri Academy, when it was first launched by the Welsh Government in 2012, was the start of a new positive and more profitable phase of...
Andy Reeves is a full time insurance engineer, but as the son of successful beef farmers who have a smallholding near Wrexham, his long term goal has always been to earn his living from the land, together with his bio-chemist...
AS THE trend towards lighter beef carcases looks set to continue, farmers will have to adapt in order to produce the cattle needed to meet target specification. Formulating appropriate rations for cattle at different growth stages is one of the...
A Ceredigion farming family is challenging the traditional pathway of progression in the Welsh dairy sector. Arwel and Mary Davies and their son, Hywel, who milk 400 Holstein Friesians on three holdings, are offering a joint venture opportunity through Farming...
With courses ranging from financial recording and VAT returns to business planning and marketing and from animal health and rodent control to machinery handling – there could well be a training course which could help the way you work or manage...
