News and Events
If you are a farmer, forester or grower, this could be the time to future-proof your business! To find out how, visit Farming Connect at this year’s Spring Festival.
Farmers, foresters and horticulturalists wanting to reduce costs and improve business efficiency are urged to visit Farming Connect at this year’s Royal Welsh Spring Festival, which will take place at the Llanelwedd showground on 20 / 21 May.
Eirwen...
Farming Connect’s next skills application window opens on 6 March – and one young farmer from Flintshire will definitely be applying!
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...
FC - Issue 7
Below is the 7th 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...
Huge potential to add value to home-produced pork
THERE are many options available to add value to home-produced pork, such as utilising traditional breeds and developing products for the retail, catering or artisan food markets. However, an idea is only as good as the time spent on developing...
Diary Marker: Piglet Survival event 15.02.17
IMPROVING piglet survival and reducing pre-weaning mortality rates can significantly increase herd productivity and performance, which in turn may help boost business profitability. Join Farming Connect and highly respected pig vet Bob Stevenson to learn more about improving piglet survival...
Simple measures to keep disease at bay on new pig unit
Pigs producers who fail to quarantine new stock for at least three weeks are not only jeopardising the health status of herds but ar
e compromising their business productivity and profitability, warns a pig vet.
Bob Stevenson says isolating new...