News and Events

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between June – August 2024

29 May 2024

Women working in agriculture throughout Wales are being invited to join Farming Connect on 4 road trips of discovery. They will be given an insider’s view of some of Wales’ most successful rural businesses, hearing at...

23 May 2024

Farmers will be under more pressure than ever during cultivation and harvesting this season, after challenging weather delayed operations, but the Wales Farm Safety Partnership (WFSP) warns that health and safety must not be compromised.

From...

13 May 2024

The Smallholding and Countryside Festival at the Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, is back on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 2024, where Farming Connect will be present to provide you with support and advice. Whether you...

Below is the 5th issue of the Farming Connect Technical Publication since the launch of the new programme in April 2023. 

It includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters for farmers in Wales, allowing...

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May – July 2024.

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...

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...

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...