News and Events

12 December 2024

A small-scale pedigree beef producer is capitalising on his limited resources by utilising best practice ideas gained from a network of fellow farmers brought together by Farming Connect as a discussion group.

Peter Lowe, who farms with...

11 December 2024

Many Welsh farms are missing out on grass yield potential because they fall short on pH and key macronutrients (P, K, Mg), a Farming Connect report of agricultural soils has shown.

More than 3,000 soil samples were...

11 December 2024

Marginal gains achieved from multiple factors, ranging from increasing scanning and rearing percentages to finishing lambs earlier, will combine to both reduce emissions and increase profitability in Welsh sheep flocks.

Many of the key performance indicators (KPIs)...

29 November 2024

Welsh sheep farmers are being urged to work closely with their vets to test for infectious diseases and to invest in post-mortems on animals that die from no obvious cause.

Maedi visna (MV), Border disease and other...

28 November 2024

It has been a remarkable trajectory for farmer Cheryl Reeves in the six years since she utilised Farming Connect’s Agrisgôp programme to first explore the seed of her farm business diversification idea.

That business, the community interest...

Below is the 7th 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...

25 November 2024

Members of the 2024 Farming Connect Agri Academy cohort have been praised for their technical expertise and vision with a set of ideas for real life business challenges and the winner was presented with an award at...