EIP Wales - Highlights - 26/05/2023
Between May 2017 and March 2023 EIP Wales funded 46 projects, worth £1.8m on a huge variety of topics across the farming and forestry sector.
Do you have a bright idea that could help your business and the wider Welsh Agricultural industry to become more sustainable?
22 May 2023
Applications are now open for a new fund where Farming Connect is making £5,000 available for farmers and growers to try-out their ideas and bring them to life.
Farming Connect has developed the Try-out fund, to...
Farming Connect’s new skills and training programme will help you and your business prepare for the future
22 May 2023
Are you and your business operating efficiently, sustainably, safely and profitably or would accessing Farming Connect’s comprehensive range of training options help get you up to speed?
Would additional skills or knowledge help prepare both...
Calling all commercial horticulture growers and potential growers… find out what’s available through Farming Connect’s new horticulture programme
15 May 2023
Are you an established horticulturalist, or one of Wales’ many small-scale niche commercial growers? Or maybe you are a land-owner looking for a sustainable new diversification opportunity? Farming Connect is this year reaching out to not...
Calling all commercial horticulture growers and potential growers… find out what’s available through Farming Connect’s new horticulture programme at this year’s Smallholding & Countryside Festival
15 May 2023
Are you an established horticulturalist, or one of Wales’ many small-scale niche commercial growers? Or maybe you are a land-owner looking for a sustainable new diversification opportunity? If you can answer yes to any of these...
Circular systems in agriculture part 2: Energy and Agriculture
3 April 2023
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Circularising energy on farms could reduce costs and greenhouse gasses and even generate revenue, or valuable by-products
- Technologies for producing energy for circular use on farms include those which...
New project farms sought for Farming Connect ‘Our Farms’ network
3 April 2023
Farmers are being given the chance to trial new innovations and technologies in farming ahead of Wales’ transition to the Sustainable Farming Scheme as Farming Connect is recruiting farms to trial on-farm projects.
The new Farming...
Menter a Busnes to appoint 100 mentors for new Farming Connect programme
17 March 2023
Food processing and butchery, sheep dog handling, viticulture and regenerative farming – in the current Farming Connect programme - approved mentors offer fully funded one-to-one support on an increasingly wide range of topics.
“Receiving confidential one-to-one...