Are you ready for a new challenge, to be who you want to be? It’s time to apply for this year’s Agri Academy!
7 June 2021 Are you ready for a challenge? A challenge that could help you achieve your personal ambitions, create new professional development opportunities and give you the confidence to aim high, to believe in yourself and what you can...
Farmers who invest in training and developing their staff are more likely to retain them and develop a reputation as a place where others will want to work.
19 November 2020 Speaking at a Farming Connect webinar on staff recruitment and retention, people consultant Paul Harris advised farmers not to adopt the mentality that training staff will make those employees sought after by other employers. “People often ask...
Farming Connect online training gives Carmarthenshire farmer the skills she needs to develop her business
21 October 2020 Carmarthenshire-born farmer’s daughter Elena Davies describes herself as a ‘hands-on’ farmer. Already running her successful self-employed farm contracting business, with a helping hand from Farming Connect, Elena is now investing in her own professional development. Thanks to...
‘Unprecedented’ - Farming Connect’s first online Women in Agriculture campaign attracts nearly 30,000 views
15 July 2020 Farming Connect received nearly 30,000 interactions on its social media platforms and website when the programme’s annual Women in Agriculture (WIA) campaign went online for the first time last month. Billed this year as ‘Leading change’, a...
Announcing Farming Connect’s Agri Academy Class of 2020 – waiting to zoom into action!
29 June 2020 Farming Connect has announced the names of those selected to take part in the Agri Academy Class of 2020. The successful candidates’ ‘academic year’ of intensive mentoring, study visits and activities has had to be postponed due...
WEBINAR: Women in Agriculture - Lilwen Joynson: Personal Development - 16/06/2020
In this webinar Lilwen covers: What daily actions are you taking in your business? How will developing myself benefit the business? How to efficiently use your time and skills to be successful? Define what success means to you. What would...
‘Insta’ sensation Anna Truesdale is one of the star attractions of Farming Connect’s online Women in Agriculture week (June 15 – 21)
3 June 2020 When a visiting politician asked an impressionable 14 year old schoolgirl, Anna Truesdale from County Down in Northern Ireland, what she wanted to be when she grew up, his response to her reply was just the catalyst...
Farming Connect is determined to reach out to women in farming - the driving force behind many successful rural businesses in Wales
26 May 2020 The number of females registered with Farming Connect is less than half the number of males registered. It’s a ratio that Eirwen Williams, director of rural programmes with Menter a Busnes, is determined to address. “With so...
Plan ahead now…. apply for Farming Connect subsidised training during the next skills application window…
24 April 2020 “Coronavirus has changed the way we live and work, but that doesn’t mean we should not plan ahead now in order to keep learning and improving both our personal and business skills.” This is the message from...