News and Events

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

'We farm in one of the driest area in Wales. One of the things that we've learnt over the 20 years that we've been here is to try and predict and look out for a drought that's coming our way...

4 May 2021

Just over a year ago, dairy farmer Ifan Jones who farms around 200 acres in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys, discovered a major structural failure at the base of his above-the-ground slurry tank. The incident meant...

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

In 2016, Nia Jones and her husband Marc left Wales to follow their dairy farming dream in New Zealand. Three years later, they came runners up in the national Share Farmer of the Year competition in New Zealand. Quite an...

28 April 2021

Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...

28 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Technological advancement is undergoing rapid and continual development within the agricultural sector
• Technologies are moving towards more environmental considerations as a new focus for the sector as a whole ...

16 April 2021

A new online tool has been launched in Wales to help farmers cut ammonia emissions.

The new Clean Air Tool, which sits on the Farming Connect website, gives practical advice on steps farmers can take to...

Silage is the second most important feed on most dairy farms after grazed grass.

Join Farming Connect and Dave Davies of Silage Solutions to discuss factors affecting silage quality, dry matter and nutrient losses throughout the decision making process from...