4 June 2021

Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Current land management approaches will need to change in order to meet the challenges associated with net zero emissions.
• This will include increasing land management practices...

3 June 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• In response to DEFRA’s consultation on the regulation of genetic technologies in English agriculture, gene editing (GE) has become a popular topic of conversation.
• GE encompasses a variety of...

26 May 2021

Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. 

Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...

20 May 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
• For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...

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

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

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The environmental issues and emerging resistance to pesticides has prompted the consideration of alternative strategies, including biological agents.
• Toxins from bacteria have been incorporated into biopesticide formulations as efficient, specific...

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...