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Celebrating our farms at the Winter Fair
25 November 2022
Farming Connect’s role is to inspire and challenge farmers throughout Wales to achieve the best from their farming systems, to run competitive, resilient and sustainable farm and forestry businesses. Since 2015, Farming Connect has helped Welsh...
Zoom Around The World - Share farming mobile dairy and poultry - Kingsclere - 21/11/2022
Nothing stays still for long at the two and a half thousand acre Kingsclere Estate. Progressive farming methods are at the heart of Estate Manager and Fourth Generation farmer, Tim May’s vision for Kinsclere.
Share farming with Ollie Chedgey...
Ready, steady, slow! Slow-growing broilers are healthier and have more positive welfare
14 November 2022
Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Consumer demand for high welfare meat promoted by animal welfare groups and NGOs is driving the market of slow-growing broilers
- Slower-growing breeds have better health and welfare than fast-growing ones...
Agroforestry options
25 October 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Agroforestry is receiving a lot of focus for its role in achieving net-zero globally
- Agroforestry offers multiple integration options but it is important to consider what trees to grow...
Episode 71 - Numerous challenges concern new entrants to the egg industry
Cath Price is Farming Connects Lead Dairy and Poultry Technical Officer. At home she also farms with her husband Dan, 20 minutes South of Newtown and have recently invested in a laying hen unit. Their new shed, and first flock...
Seaweed in agriculture
20 October 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Seaweeds have long had suggested benefits for agricultural use
- Research suggests green seaweeds to be beneficial for soil/plant amendments and red seaweeds to have some potential for animal feeds...
Episode 70: Sustainable Farming Scheme- Delving deeper into the detail
This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...