As we start the new year all farmers should be asking themselves the question, how can we make our farms safer in 2025? Once again, transport equipment accidents featured highly in 2024 with quad ATV’s topping the list. I believe...
19 May 2025
Balancing soil nutrient levels by applying calcium to farmland could help farmers reduce weed populations and their synthetic fertiliser and chemical use.
In common with many farmers, lamb and egg producers Ben Anthony and Diana Fairclough face...
I am very excited to be able to say that I am the new leader for Farming Connect’s Agri Academy programme. This is a unique and very special leadership scheme which brings together 12 farmers from diverse sectors across Wales...
13 May 2025
Third generation Radnor Valley farmer John Goodwin credits the Farming Connect Agri Academy Business & Innovation programme for giving him the inspiration, guidance and supportive networks he needed to achieve ambitious new goals for himself and the...
12 May 2025
Join Farming Connect at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 May 2025 for the annual Spring Festival!
Farming Connect will be present at the event to offer support and advice...
Following an application to present on one of Farming Connect’s Our Farms Network projects at the British Society of Animal Science Conference this year, Farming Connect’s Carbon Specialist Officer, Non Williams attended the conference in Galway, Ireland from 8 to...
06 May 2025
Setting up and growing a successful new business is something many people will only ever dream about. Young farmer Cian Iolen Rhys says that Farming Connect’s Agri Academy Junior Programme gave him the confidence and life-skills to...
29 April 2025
Through Farming Connect’s Our Farms network, and with support from sector-specific industry experts, farmers have been driving improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and profitability since 2015.
Farming Connect has now added 12 new farms to this network, covering...
28 April 2024
Launched in 2012 and the first of its kind, the Agri Academy now has over 300 alumni, each proud to reflect on the time spent on the Farming Connect flagship personal development residential programme as an invaluable...
23 April 2025
Farmers are invited to a series of on-farm events - Grassland weed challenge: Strategies for success. Hosted at three locations across Wales, these events with Daniel Lievesley of DJL Agriculture, a 2025 shortlisted national agronomist of the...
