News and Events
WEBINAR: The Resilient Farmer - Bounce forward from a crisis - 30/06/2020
Doug Avery is a New Zealand farmer who 20 years ago was hit by an eight year drought. Doug recovered 10 years later from his depression to win South Island Farmer of the Year. In 2014 Doug and his wife...
Episode 21 - Farming Connect's Women in Agriculture week overview - 30/06/2020
This week we'll reflect on Farming Connect's Women in Agriculture week. In this episode we hand over the interview to a guest presenter to obtain the highlights from three that joined the week digitally.
Challenges facing the future delivery of services from woodland in Wales
29 June 2020
Ruby Bye: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Current forestry policy outlines many diverse and often indirect woodland benefits, beyond timber, pulp and fuel provision
- Pest and pathogen outbreaks are occurring in woodlands worldwide with increased frequency, putting...
Announcing Farming Connect’s Agri Academy Class of 2020 – waiting to zoom into action!
29 June 2020
Farming Connect has announced the names of those selected to take part in the Agri Academy Class of 2020.
The successful candidates’ ‘academic year’ of intensive mentoring, study visits and activities has had to be...
WEBINAR: Moocall - using calving and heat detection technology - 29/06/2020
Wasted time and lost profitability are pitfalls every farmer can fall into. Whether it's time spent checking your cows for tail paint, or if it's waiting for signs of calving for a cow who won't give birth for days. Ag-Tech...
Chicory could hold key to higher lamb DLWG at Denbighshire sheep farm
26 June 2020
A Welsh lamb producer is aiming to capture an average daily liveweight gain (DLWG) of 300g/day by including chicory in his grazing rotation.
Hugh Jones runs a closed flock of 350 ewes at Pentre Farm...
WEBINAR: Llwyn Goronwy: Evaluating the benefits of milk recording in the spring calving herd - 25/06/2020
Sean Chubb from LLC discusses how we can make use of NMR’s Grazing 4 recording service to:
- Cull persisent high cell count cow
- Select cows for breeding based on performance
- Rank cows at Llwyn Goronwy on kilograms of milk solids (MS)- per...
WEBINAR: Milking efficiency: more milk, less time - 24/06/2020
Tom Greenham, Advance Milking discusses the important of milking efficiently.
With herd size growing and labour availability often being a challenge on dairy farms, improving the efficiency of milking can give significant savings in time and money. More efficient milking...