The average age of a Welsh farmer is 60, and only 3% of farmers are under 35 - what more can be done to encourage new entrants into agriculture? In our two part series we've asked our first four new...

This dashboard outlines forestry key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between October 2021 - September 2022.

This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April 2022 - July 2022.

9 December 2022

“However confident you are in your own ability, there are sometimes better or different ways of doing things.”

These are the words of William Williams, who keeps around 500 easy-care ewes at the 200-acre farm near...

In this episode we will focus on biodiversity. We will visit Mount Joy Farm, Pembrokeshire, where farmer Will Hannah has undertaken a biodiversity audit to see how his farming system expands the diversity he has there. We will also visit...

25 November 2022

Farming Connect’s role is to inspire and challenge farmers throughout Wales to achieve the best from their farming systems, to run competitive, resilient and sustainable farm and forestry businesses. Since 2015, Farming Connect has helped Welsh...

24 November 2022

North Wales sheep farmer Huw Beech and his wife Bethan are turning an undermanaged farm woodland into a sustainable energy-producing enterprise – a project they say they would never have envisaged were it not for Farming...