Cefngwilgy Fawr
Gareth, Edward and Kate Jones
Cefngwilgy Fawr, Llanidloes
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
Gaining a better understanding of our soils and silage: we are not heavy users of purchased feeds but want to...
Our Farms Projects
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Pendre
Tom and Beth Evans
Pendre, Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
To maximise grass utilisation – through Farming Connect we have sampled soils in every field and they are all at...
Dudwell
Dudwell, Camrose, Haverfordwest
Focus Site Project: Evaluating soil mapping options
Project aims:
- To identify and evaluate four different soil sampling techniques across two fields- one in arable production and one on a grassland field
- To use two Electrical Conductivity (EC)...
Upper Pendre
Upper Pendre, Llangorse, Brecon
Focus Site Project: Does Rye have a Role in Wales?
Project aims:
- Evaluate the suitability of rye as a combinable cereal in Welsh growing conditions, how rye fits into a cereal rotation, and its suitability as...
Gate Farm
Gate Farm, Llandyssil, Montgomery
Focus Site Project: Different overseeding establishing techniques using multi-species mixtures and min-till establishment method for a brassica break-crop in a grass ley
Project aims:
The aim of this project is to introduce new grass varieties, legume and...
Nantglas
Iwan Francis
Nantglas, Talog, Carmarthenshire
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
Cow fertility: fertility can be a challenge as we have two calving blocks. My aim is to reduce our calving period from 12...
Plas Farm
Arwyn Jones
Plas farm, Llandegfan, Anglesey
Main Objectives
- Reduce the costs of bought in feed by maximising utilisation of home-grown feed stuff.
- Improve the flock rearing percentage through cost effective measures.
- Improve pasture quality during the growing season, to...
Pant Farm
Pant Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny
Focus Site Project: Under-sowing maize using a specially modified drill
Winter monitoring of water quality in the Trothy river catchment in Monmouthshire has revealed spikes in river phosphate levels following a high rainfall incidence. This...
Ysgellog
Ysgellog, Rhosgoch, Amlwch, Anglesey
Focus Site Project: Micronutrient availability in grassland soil: its role in promoting grass production
Project objectives:
The overarching aim of the project will be to determine the micronutrient status of the farm’s soils in the context of...
Fferm Gelli Goll
Mark & Bethany Jarvis
Gelli Goll Farm, South Wales
Understanding the benefits of growing a cereal and legume mix as a complete feed
Gelli Goll is a Beef, Sheep and Arable farm on the outskirts of Cowbridge which is...