Livestock: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
'We farm in one of the driest area in Wales. One of the things that we've learnt over the 20 years that we've been here is to try and predict and look out for a drought that's coming our way...
In 2016, Nia Jones and her husband Marc left Wales to follow their dairy farming dream in New Zealand. Three years later, they came runners up in the national Share Farmer of the Year competition in New Zealand. Quite an...
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...
27 April 2021
Simple changes to pig management can result in significant improvements in fertility on units struggling with reproduction.
Factors influencing pig fertility are many and varied and can be due to infectious or non-infectious causes, says pig...
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...
14 April 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
9 April 2021
Grassland management on Welsh farms has been transformed in a decade with one beef farmer describing rotational grazing as an ‘absolute game-changer’ for his business.
Paul Williams, who runs a suckler herd at Cae Haidd, Llanrwst...
Dairy farmer, Eurig Jenkins of Pentrefelin, Talsarn, Lampeter, tells us more about his experiences as a Farming Connect demonstration farmer, what he learned and how he improved his business as a result.