Join Farming Connect and vet Kate Burnby, the specialist consultant in a project at Nantglas demonstration site, to discuss what changes can contribute to improved fertility and tightened calving block.

• What is an achievable tight calving pattern?
• Planning & goal...

4 June 2020

Persistent dry weather conditions during recent months have led Farming Connect’s red meat demonstration sites to adjust management practices to meet the challenges they’re facing. It has become evident that reduced grass growth rates and diminishing...

4 June 2020

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The lipid profile of milk is easily manipulated through diet, reducing the amount of saturated fats and boosting levels of unsaturated fats.
• Grazing dairy cows on a diverse sward...

3 June 2020

When a visiting politician asked an impressionable 14 year old schoolgirl, Anna Truesdale from County Down in Northern Ireland, what she wanted to be when she grew up, his response to her reply was just the...

2 June 2020

An intensive bull beef finishing system could help a Ceredigion suckler enterprise add value to cattle.
Huw and Meinir Jones want to maximise herd efficiency, productivity and profitability at Bryn, a Farming Connect demonstration site near...

Here is the second webinar in a series of dairy lunchtime webinars.

The milking liner is the only part of the milking machine that's in contact with the cow. As such, the properties of the liner have a big impact...

26 May 2020

The number of females registered with Farming Connect is less than half the number of males registered.  It’s a ratio that Eirwen Williams, director of rural programmes with Menter a Busnes, is determined to address.

“With...

Veterinary surgeon, Joseph Angell of Wern Vets discussing results from an EIP Wales project investigating trace element requirements in sheep. Twelve farmers have been looking into improving their nutritional planning in breeding ewes, investigating the individual flock needs for trace...

Here is the first webinar in a series of dairy lunchtime webinars.

The milking machine can be a significant risk for mastitis. Inappropriate combinations of milking hardware and machine settings can affect the physical structure of the cows’ teats, reducing...