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Alex Prichard Portrait

Feeding transition milk to newborn calves in their first 10 days and enriching it according to their immunoglobulin G (IgG) status has helped a Pembrokeshire dairy farm slash mortality rates pre-weaning by almost two-thirds.

20 August 2024

Will and Alex Prichard calve 500 cows in a spring block at Escalwen, near Letterston, and also run two 200-cow autumn calving herds.

That high throughput of calves can present disease challenges - in the three years...

Type: News Key Sector: Beef
Theme: Business, Land, Livestock Key Specialism: Animal Health and Welfare, Diversification, Innovation
New e-learning

New Farming Connect modules will help farmers transition to SFS

30 April 2024

 

Farming Connect has launched a new set of online modules based around practices that maintain the productivity and health of farmland and livestock in a sustainable way, to help Welsh farmers as they make the transition...

Type: News Key Sector: Arable, Beef, Dairy, Mixed, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep
Theme: Business, Land, Livestock Key Specialism: Animal Health and Welfare, Business Management and Planning, Innovation
Dianna and Iestyn Spary, Goytre Farm, New Church West.

Farming Connect Animal Health and Welfare Workshops help family farm shape a business ‘fit for the future’

29 April 2024

An eagerness to learn new skills and knowledge is helping mother and son Dianna and Iestyn Spary to continually improve their livestock farming enterprise and build a financially sustainable business fit for the future.

Technical expertise and...

Type: Case Studies Key Sector: Beef
Theme: Business, Livestock Key Specialism: Animal Health and Welfare, Business Management and Planning, Diversification