News and Events

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

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...

29 April 2021

The rooting depths of clovers and herbal leys can help Welsh livestock farms reduce nutrient run-off.

Tom Jones is aiming to use multi species leys and rotational grazing to improve feed efficiency and reduce inputs on...

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...

15 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Regenerative agriculture aims to shift away from productivity and sustaining outputs towards the four R’s, renewal, recovery, replacement and repair of ecosystems.
• Many farmers already use individual regenerative practices...

As a part of a three-year European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Wales project, trials have been undertaken on four farms in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion to see if foliar feed (liquid fertiliser) is more effective than conventional compound fertiliser. In this episode...

Below is the 32nd 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 our...

14 April 2021

Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Mixed grazing systems can increase ruminant production potential
• Grazing multiple species of herbivore either simultaneously or consecutively can increase pasture usage efficiency and reduce parasite burdens
• This...