04 November 2025
The latest fully funded Animal Health and Welfare training workshop, delivered by local vet practices under the Farming Connect programme will concentrate on disease management through vaccination.
Proactive, science-based vaccination is important in effective cattle disease management...
14 August 2025
Are you a smallholder looking to improve knowledge, health and management of your animals?
Farming Connect is offering new, fully funded training workshops to help Welsh livestock keepers tackle animal health and welfare challenges. These workshops are...
The Welsh Government (WG) has reinforced its commitment to protecting Welsh livestock from Bluetongue, a serious viral disease, with new disease control measures coming into effect in time for 1 July. To date, Wales has successfully kept Bluetongue serotype 3...
18 June 2025
Farming Connect is offering a fully funded, Lantra-accredited animal health and welfare training workshop -'Managing Breeding Bulls'. It will be delivered by approved local vet practices across Wales and is designed to support farmers to enhance their...
16 June 2025
A Welsh study has flagged up the value of scanning calves’ lungs for respiratory disease damage as two-thirds of the animals with lesions had never had any clinical symptoms.
Respiratory disease is a major cause of mortality...
22 May 2025
A new co-operative formed between West Wales pig farmers and a meat supplier is allowing pork from herds born and reared within the region to be transported for processing just a short distance in a low-throughput abattoir...
Following an application to present on one of Farming Connect’s Our Farms Network projects at the British Society of Animal Science Conference this year, Farming Connect’s Carbon Specialist Officer, Non Williams attended the conference in Galway, Ireland from 8 to...
24 April 2025
A project involving multiple Welsh dairy farms has demonstrated why collecting data to establish the mastitis red flags specific to an individual herd can be key to reducing disease incidence.
Farming Connect enlisted ten herds ranging in...
07 April 2025
Farmers across Pembrokeshire are proving that even in the most isolating of professions, no one has to face TB alone.
Recognising the profound impact of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on both their livestock and their personal wellbeing, in...
