News and Events

30 June 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The Welsh landscape has been cared for and shaped by generations of farmers and their livestock, providing public goods and contributing to the supply chain along the way.
• Pasture, and...

29 June 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Slurry can be both a significant waste consideration as well as a plentiful resource
• Slurry management can be a challenge but improved accuracy through technological innovations could assist with...

28 June 2021

A new ‘glamping’ pod venture has helped secure the future of a 200 acre upland farm in South Wales, which is now set to stay in the family for the fourth generation. 

When Linda Davies’s late...

A new ‘glamping’ pod venture has helped secure the future of a 200 acre upland farm in South Wales, which is now set to stay in the family for the fourth generation. 

When Linda Davies’s late husband John lost his...

25 June 2021

A Ceredigion dairy farm is using satellite-derived data to inform grassland management decisions and is trialling its accuracy against a plate meter.

Ffosygravel, a Farming Connect focus site near Borth, produces over half its milk output...

In this episode, we meet Huw Jones who farms with his wife Meinir at Bryn Farm near Cardigan. Together they run a suckler beef enterprise, grow barley, oats and wheat alongside their diversification projects which includes an animal bedding business...

From front-line nurse to front-line farmer! This is Emma Roberts and daughter, Mari, who are an important part of ‘Team Roberts’ at Brynaeron, a 360 acre dairy, family farm in Pembrokeshire.

Keen to learn all they could about the livestock...