Our Farms Projects

Project aims:

• Improve feed self-sufficiency for the farm’s suckler herd.
• Reduce feed costs by buying in less concentrates.
• Compare the...

Project Aims and Objectives:

Implement on farm changes

• To work with network of farmers throughout Wales to :-
  • Implement the latest advice and recommendations from SCOPS and COWS
  • Implement regular monitoring of worm burdens through faecal...

Drinking-water availability has always been a concern for the sheep farm, Wallog, located on the Cardigan coast, near Clarach, Ceredigion. In a low rain-fall area of Wales, the farm relies on an ageing network...

Project aims:

• To improve daily liveweight gains and profitability of the intensive indoor calf rearing enterprise by determining the true extent of Pneumonia cases in young...

Treathro is a 170-acre coastal moorland farm, rearing a herd of Red Ruby Devon cattle along with a small flock of Lleyn sheep. It is a forage-based system whereby all cattle are certified under the...

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...

Project Aims:

• Demonstrating the process of converting from a set stocking beef and sheep farm to a rotational grazing...

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

Using EID to record cattle and sheep performance: liveweight gain information is already captured on a weigh cell but the next...

Project Objectives:

The main aim of this project is to quantify the carbon...