Horticulture: May 2020 – April 2021
This dashboard outlines horticulture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between May 2020 - April 2021.
FC - Issue 33 - May/June 2021
Below is the 33rd 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...
How can changing land management approaches help to achieve net zero?
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 which focus...
Gene editing and agriculture
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 tools, perhaps...
Reducing emissions and improving biodiversity can go hand in hand with making your business more profitable
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 the...
Sustainable agriculture: Meaningful metrics and motivations
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 environmental considerations...
Lucy Owens - Grow Your Own - 17/05/2021
2021 SMALLHOLDING AND COUNTRYSIDE FESTIVAL Grow Your Own with LUCY OWENS
Small-scale diversified ventures can ‘bring home the bacon’ for smallholders – Farming Connect goes online for this year’s ‘virtual’ Royal Welsh Smallholding & Countryside Festival
11 May 2021 Farming Connect will focus on ‘small scale’ diversification ventures that have the potential to scale up, in an online programme of events targeted at smallholders and farmers who are invited to ‘tune in’ for this year’s ‘remote’...
Land: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
Farming Connect’s skills application window opens as face-to-face training resumes
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 adhered...