Our Farms Projects
Project Information from some farms are missing due to website development at present but will be available shortly.
Graig Olway
Russell Morgan
Llangeview, Usk
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
Foot health in a robotic milking system: we are interested in alternatives to footbathing; in a conventional milking system footbathing can easily be done...
Trevithel Court
Trevithel Court, Three Cocks, Brecon
Focus Site Event: Evaluating benefits of implementing GPS technology and precision farming in grassland operations
This on farm event hosted by Trevithel Court farm looked at whether investing in GPS technology would provide farmers...
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)...
Ffrith Farm
Ffrith Farm, Treuddyn, Mold, Flintshire
Focus Site Project: Building a farm destination experience around existing resources
Project Objectives:
The project will consider using existing resources, developing the land adjacent to the shop, and fitting new enterprises in with the labour demands...
Pantyderi
Wyn and Eurig Jones
Pantyderi, Boncath, Pembrokeshire
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...
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...
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...
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...
Arnolds Hill Farm
Arnolds Hill Farm, Slebech, Haverfordwest
Focus Site Project: Undersowing maize for environmental and economic benefit
What will be done:
A 5 hectare (ha) field situated on a slope and sown with Augustus maize has been chosen as being likely to suffer...