31 January 2022
Business looks bright for almost 4,500 Welsh farm and forestry businesses that have received support through the Farming Connect Advisory Service, with almost 7,000 claims for support already completed by the service. These are the industry...
28 January 2022
Delyth Fôn Owen and Andrew Rees have recently joined an already bursting directory of Mentors as part of the Farming Connect Mentoring programme. The programme provides farmers and foresters with 15 hours of free guidance from...
25 January 2022
Dr David Cutress and Dr Gwen Rees: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
24 January 2022
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
In our first episode of 2022, we meet Dr Delana Davies who farms with her family at Tierson, near Milford Haven. Alongside their diverse farming business which includes dairying, sheep farming, breeding pedigree Limousin cattle and potato growing, Delana also...
Below is the 37th 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...
19 January 2022
This week, the National Centre for Learning Welsh and Menter a Busnes have launched a new online Learn Welsh course for the agricultural sector.
The 10-hour short course, part of the Centre’s ‘Work Welsh’ scheme, is...
7 January 2022
Using multiple milk fever prevention strategies is paying dividends at a Carmarthenshire dairy farm.
Iwan Francis, who produces milk on a split block calving system at Nantglas, Talog, had experienced high levels of milk fever...
In this episode of FCTV, we will be concentrating on livestock performance; we will be visiting a dairy farm that uses state-of-the-art technology to control lameness; we will be visiting a farm that focuses on providing gains in suckler cow...
14 December 2021
“Those regular online Agrisgôp Zoom meetings were a lifeline for most of us - an arm around the shoulder, giving us practical advice and moral support when we most needed it.” These are the words of...
