Dairy: January 2021 – April 2021
This dashboard outlines dairy key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2021 - April 2021.
News and Events
Are you ready for a new challenge, to be who you want to be? It’s time to apply for this year’s Agri Academy!
7 June 2021
Are you ready for a challenge? A challenge that could help you achieve your personal ambitions, create new professional development opportunities and give you the confidence to aim high, to believe in yourself and what you...
FC - Issue 33 - May/June 2021
Below is the 33rd issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.
Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from our...
How can changing land management approaches help to achieve net zero?
4 June 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current land management approaches will need to change in order to meet the challenges associated with net zero emissions.
- This will include increasing land management practices...
Episode 43 - Building an enjoyable and profitable business at Mountjoy Farm, Pembrokeshire
This week the team have been back recording on location and have visited Mountjoy Farm near Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire; one of Farming Connect’s demonstration sites. Mountjoy is a dairy farm run by second generation farmer William Hannah and his family...
Gene editing and agriculture
3 June 2021
Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- In response to DEFRA’s consultation on the regulation of genetic technologies in English agriculture, gene editing (GE) has become a popular topic of conversation.
- GE encompasses a variety of...
‘Thinking outside the box’ - partnership approach pays dividends for Ceredigion family’s milk vending diversification project
1 June 2021
Thinking outside the box, or to be more precise, a highly customised horse box, where you can buy ‘farm fresh’ milk from a ‘mobile’ vending machine, has proved a winning idea for a family of third-generation...
Llaeth Llanfair enterprise - 01/06/2021
Thinking outside the box, or to be more precise, a highly customised horse box, where you can buy ‘farm fresh’ milk from a ‘mobile’ vending machine, has proved a winning idea for a family of third-generation Ceredigion dairy farmers now...
Providing environmental goods could increase financial resilience of Welsh sheep farms
27 May 2021
Welsh sheep farmers are being urged to embrace good grazing management and rotational grazing to help the industry become more environmentally sustainable.
Dr Catherine Nakielny has used the Farming Connect Management Exchange Programme as an opportunity...
Reducing emissions and improving biodiversity can go hand in hand with making your business more profitable
26 May 2021
Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...