News and Events

21 November 2018

The Red Meat Benchmarking Programme deadline is fast approaching and we encourage you to complete the online questionnaire as soon as possible, or you could miss out on £1,000. This is the message from Eirwen Williams...

Dr Stephen Chapman: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• The agricultural industry is a major consumer of plastic
• Plastic mulch and silage wrap waste is expensive to dispose of correctly
• Biodegradable and compostable plastics offer a suitable alternative to...

7 November 2018

A Welsh beef producer is maximising output per hectare (ha) by grazing cattle on fodder beet.

Marc Jones, who farms 500 acres at Trefnant Hall on the Powis Estate with his parents, David and Jane...

Unnecessary collection of rainwater can significantly reduce available storage capacity in slurry stores over the winter months, resulting in forced disposal of material to the land potentially during wet weather conditions. 

25 September 2018

The new cattle EID system has now been installed at Rhug, a Farming Connect focus site in Corwen. As it is installed within the existing cattle handling system, the new system allows for basic data to...