Bryn
Huw and Meinir Jones
Bryn, Ferwig, Cardigan
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
Maximising liveweight gain off grass: We sell our beef cattle as stores but following changes to the business we plan to finish cattle next...
Our Farms Projects
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Lower Llatho
Lower Llatho, Cregrina, Builth Wells, Powys
Focus Site Project: Improving the profitability and efficiency of a hill sheep enterprise
Project Objectives:
The main aim of this project is to identify key areas that will improve performance, efficiency and profitability on a...
Great Tre-rhew Farm
Jim and Kate Beavan
Great Tre-rhew Farm, Llanvetherine, Abergavenny
Main Objectives
- To make the farms viable, producing quality food.
- To manage wildlife and be sustainable for the next generation.
Great Tre Rhew Farm Facts
Demonstration Site Project
“In the...
Carwed Fynydd
Carwed Fynydd, Denbigh, Conwy
Focus Site Project: Fodder Beet and Kale production – seed to feed guide and benefit to a suckler beef system
- Carwed Fynydd is an upland suckler beef and sheep farm. The farm rises to approximately...
Fferm Carreg Plas
Fferm Carreg Plas, Aberdaron, Pwllheli, Gwynedd
Focus Site Project: Transitioning from set stocking to a techno grazing system
Project aims
The main aim of the project is to demonstrate the transition from a set stocking system to a rotational grazing...
Ffrem Cilywinllan
Eifion Pughe
Ffrem Cilywinllan, North Montgomeryshire
With drier summers and fluctuating input costs on the rise, Eifion and Menna are keen to see if they can grow herbs and clover with their grass leys to increase drought tolerance alongside...
Lan Farm
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthen
Focus site project: Improving suckler cow efficiency by optimising mature cow body weight
Project aims:
- To evaluate changes in cow mature weight and cow efficiency in terms of weight of calf weaned as a percentage of cow...
Carregcynffyrdd
Carys Jones
Carregcynffyrdd, North Carmarthenshire
Carregcynffyrdd, is farmed by Carys Jones and family where they run a flock of 400 Llanymddyfri Welsh ewes and 100 Romney cross ewes alongside a herd of 50 suckler cows.
Over recent years, Carys...