Dairy demonstration site Mountjoy in Treffgarne Pembrokeshire has had considerable success in the use of Selective Dry Cow Therapy to improve udder health as well as reducing the use of antibiotics. Here we see the steps and measures in management...
4 April 2022
A Welsh sheep farm has reduced its bedding costs by 75%, and significantly improved the incidence of ewe lameness at housing since switching from straw bedding to a slatted floor.
Plastic slats were retrofitted to a...
1 April 2022
A lamb producer who is pioneering methods of improving the persistency and quality of grazing leys on marginal land in the Welsh uplands has won a major new grassland management award.
John Yeomans, who is involved...
Entrepreneurship runs through the veins of Llŷr Jones, Derwydd Farm near Corwen. He’s one of those farmers who’s not afraid of giving something a go and in this episode, we hear about all the different enterprises that are taking place...
31 March 2022
Dr Emma Davies: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
29 March 2022
A Welsh sheep farmer says achieving carbon efficiencies in agriculture must be balanced against the need for farm businesses to be productive and profitable.
Rhys Edwards, who runs a flock of 530 ewes and 180 ewe...
28 March 2022
The Jones family grew eight hectares (ha) of the crop at Pantyderi Farm, Boncath, as part of their project work as Farming Connect demonstration farmers.
The pulses replaced a 36% protein concentrate blend that had...
24 March 2022
Dairy farms involved in a Farming Connect project to tackle issues that impact on milk quality achieved a milk price uplift of up to 4p/litre after applying recommended changes.
Twenty-eight First Milk suppliers, with herds ranging...
