'We farm in one of the driest area in Wales. One of the things that we've learnt over the 20 years that we've been here is to try and predict and look out for a drought that's coming our way...
Join Farming Connect at Pendre demonstration farm where you can hear from farmer Tom Evans about his farming system and learn more about current projects on improving leys and increasing soil organic matter. We will also be joined by grassland...
4 May 2021
Just over a year ago, dairy farmer Ifan Jones who farms around 200 acres in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys, discovered a major structural failure at the base of his above-the-ground slurry tank. The incident meant...
Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.
The webinar will cover the following points:
In 2016, Nia Jones and her husband Marc left Wales to follow their dairy farming dream in New Zealand. Three years later, they came runners up in the national Share Farmer of the Year competition in New Zealand. Quite an...
29 April 2021
The rooting depths of clovers and herbal leys can help Welsh livestock farms reduce nutrient run-off.
Tom Jones is aiming to use multi species leys and rotational grazing to improve feed efficiency and reduce inputs on...
28 April 2021
Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...
28 April 2021
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
27 April 2021
Simple changes to pig management can result in significant improvements in fertility on units struggling with reproduction.
Factors influencing pig fertility are many and varied and can be due to infectious or non-infectious causes, says pig...
23 April 2021
“At first sight this seems worrying but, because the testing is relatively sensitive and accurate, it means that on many farms we are identifying resistance in the early stages,’’ says sheep specialist James Hadwin, who is...
