This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

28 April 2021

Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...

28 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Technological advancement is undergoing rapid and continual development within the agricultural sector
• Technologies are moving towards more environmental considerations as a new focus for the sector as a whole ...

21 April 2021

A Denbighshire sheep farm is harvesting wood from its woodland to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees.

Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare (ha) woodland...

15 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Regenerative agriculture aims to shift away from productivity and sustaining outputs towards the four R’s, renewal, recovery, replacement and repair of ecosystems.
• Many farmers already use individual regenerative practices...

Below is the 32nd issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.

Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from our...

Head of Rural Programmes and Director of Menter a Busnes, Eirwen Williams, welcomes you to a week of celebrating a decade of Farming Connect's demonstration farms!