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Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle inputs, nutrients and waste May – July 2024
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May – July 2024.
News and Events
New Farming Connect modules will help farmers transition to SFS
30 April 2024
Farming Connect has launched a new set of online modules based around practices that maintain the productivity and health of farmland and livestock in a sustainable way, to help Welsh farmers as they make the transition...
Farming Connect Animal Health and Welfare Workshops help family farm shape a business ‘fit for the future’
29 April 2024
An eagerness to learn new skills and knowledge is helping mother and son Dianna and Iestyn Spary to continually improve their livestock farming enterprise and build a financially sustainable business fit for the future.
Technical expertise and...
Phytoremediation: The Role of Plants to Purify Agricultural Wastewaters
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, KEHub, Aberystwyth University.
April 2024
Phytoremediation is a green technology that involves the use of plants to remove toxic components or contaminants from either the air, within soil or from aqueous solutions.
Phytoremediation offers the potential...
Transition milk trial targets calf health at Pembrokeshire dairy farm
25 April 2024
A Pembrokeshire spring-calving dairy farm is introducing a new feeding system for newborn calves in what is to be thought the first trial of its kind in a large-scale herd.
Will and Alex Prichard are feeding...
How becoming an accident statistic has made farmer a champion of farm health and safety
23 April 2024
Five years on from a quad bike accident that fractured Beca Glyn’s skull, wearing a safety helmet is programmed into her subconscious, and is as familiar to her as wearing a car...
Rhyd Y Gofaint Farm Trials White Clover to Reduce Fertilizer Costs and Boost Production
18 April 2024
Deryl and Frances Jones of Rhyd Y Gofaint, Ceredigion, are leading the way in sustainable agriculture with a research project exploring the potential of white clover to improve nitrogen use efficiency and boost milk and meat...
Upland dairy farm trialling herbal ley mixes established with direct drilling
16 April 2024
A Welsh upland dairy farming business is aiming to accelerate its move away from a reliance on nitrogen fertiliser for growing grass by growing herbal ley mixes.
Taking on the long-term tenancy of 48ha Maes Dulas...
‘Try Out Fund’ dairy farmer aims to increase soil biology
15 April 2024
A dairy farmer is introducing hundreds of species of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes into his farm soils in a bid to create the healthy ecosystem he needs to support grass production without inputs.
Sam...