News and Events
Venture: June 2022 – December 2022
This dashboard outlines Venture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between June 2022 - December 2022.
Livestock: August 2022 – December 2022
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2022 - December 2022.
Risk Mapping Guidance - 14/02/2023
As part of the Control of Agricultural Pollution regulations 2021 every farm business which
spreads organic manure will be required to produce a Risk Map from the 1 January 2023.
Good AI protocols and calving records factor in improved dairy herd fertility
13 February 2023
Good artificial insemination (AI) protocols are helping a Carmarthenshire dairy farm achieve a six week in-calf rate of more than 80%.
Iwan Francis runs a split block calving herd of 200 Friesian-cross cows at Nantglas, Talog...
Application window for Farming Connect Fertility increasing workshop is now open!
6 February 2023
With good breeding and reproductive management underpinning profitability in Welsh cattle herds, farmers are being urged to sign up for a new Farming Connect workshop designed to help maximise herd fertility.
Master Fertility, the latest in...
The navel - a pathway for disease after birth: Managing livestock disease to improve welfare and production
25 January 2023
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Following birth, livestock are highly susceptible to diseases and mortality rates are high
- Management of the newborn’s navel region is important to prevent infections from tracking through to the...
FCTV - Nutrition - 23/01/2023
With input costs being very high at the moment, it is important that we look very closely at costs and how we feed our animals.