Farming Connect and Joseph Angell of Wern Vets discuss the key considerations for effective flock health planning and efficient use of antibiotics on farm.
He covers the health planning strategies undertaken at Rhiwaedog demonstration site and how they limit their use of antibiotics...
8 October 2020
A dairy-to-beef calf rearing and finishing enterprise is utilising grass more efficiently and maintaining sward quality since establishing a rotational system of grazing.
Neil Davies and his family had been running a suckler beef herd at...
8 October 2020
Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Those were the sentiments of this week’s contributor, Prysor Williams. Aled Jones asks Prysor to share his vision for Welsh Agriculture for the next ten years and how Welsh Farming needs to grasp the opportunity to develop its brand of...
2 October 2020
Data is driving decision making around grass growth and utilisation at a Welsh dairy farm as it seeks to nearly double milk from forage in its all-year-round calving high yielding herd.
The Holstein herd at Erw...
30 September 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April 2020 – July 2020.
30 September 2020
Richard Isaac is a progressive and very experienced third generation beef and sheep farmer who has a 600 acre farm near Ynysybwl in South East Wales. He is also a Farming Connect mentor, with first-hand experience...
23 September 2020
Arfon James is milking 100 British Friesian cows after securing a Farm Business Tenancy (FBT) with David Brooke in an agreement that benefitted from fully funded business planning through Farming Connect’s Venture programme.
The pair came together...
