News and Events

26 May 2023

European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Wales has celebrated six years of funding on-farm projects with a recent conference near Newtown to mark the culmination of the programme. The EIP Wales programme ended in March 2023 but a...

Between May 2017 and March 2023 EIP Wales funded 46 projects, worth £1.8m on a huge variety of topics across the farming and forestry sector.

22 May 2023

Applications are now open for a new fund where Farming Connect is making £5,000 available for farmers and growers to try-out their ideas and bring them to life. 

Farming Connect has developed the Try-out fund, to...

22 May 2023

Are you and your business operating efficiently, sustainably, safely and profitably or would  accessing Farming Connect’s comprehensive range of training options help get you up to speed?  

Would additional skills or knowledge help prepare both...

3 April 2023

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Circularising energy on farms could reduce costs and greenhouse gasses and even generate revenue, or valuable by-products
• Technologies for producing energy for circular use on farms include those which...

3 April 2023

Dr Saba Amir, IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Establishment of trees in hen ranges as part of a silvopoultry system is considered to improve poultry welfare, provide wider environmental benefits and increase local biodiversity.
• Because the...

3 April 2023

Farmers are being given the chance to trial new innovations and technologies in farming ahead of Wales’ transition to the Sustainable Farming Scheme as Farming Connect is recruiting farms to trial on-farm projects.

The new Farming...

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April – August 2023