Dr Ruth Wonfor: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Take home messages:
Collaboration and vision has helped to secure a viable future for four Welsh family farms, who have invested a total of £3 million diversifying into free range egg production.
With the farms ranging in size from 40 acres, free range...
Are your farm records up to date? Do they satisfy current scheme and legislative requirements?
If you don’t know the answer to these questions, or even if you just need reassurance that you are on top of all your farm...
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Reducing the use of antibiotics at drying off is resulting in significant savings at a Farming Connect dairy Demonstration Farm.
By implementing Selective Dry Cow Therapy (SDCT) at Tyreglwys, Llangennech, farmer Geraint Thomas has reduced costs by £7.40 per...
With the majority of ewe sales completed, many farmers will now be focusing on the winter feeding of the flock.
Reducing the burden of feed costs as well as tackling lameness are key strategies being adopted at a Farming...
Looking at ways to reduce the use of antibiotics at lambing time will be one of the key topics being discussed at a Farming Connect Open Day.
Vet Kate Hovers will provide an overview of a project being undertaken at Plas...
Thousands of breeding and store sheep will be moved around the UK during the next few months. Many farmers are blind to the potential peril surrounding purchased animals when moved onto their holding, and are often susceptible to buying in...
Keeping mortality rates down and growth rates up is one of the main targets for commercial milking goat producers looking to improve productivity and efficiency.
At a Farming Connect meeting held at Pant Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, established and new...
John and Meinir Thomas, together with their eldest son Gethin (21) farm at their 500 acre upland family holding, Cefnllanio, near Tregaron. They run a herd of 65 suckler cows, mainly Hereford cross, together with around 1,000 Welsh Mountain and Welsh...
