Folly Farm manager Kim Brickell always turns to Farming Connect when she wants to learn a new skill!

6 May 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Sheep scab eradication is vital as the disease impacts the UK sheep sector via huge economic losses and as a significant welfare concern
• Control would benefit from combined focus...

19 April 2022

Farming Connect has added an additional module to its fully-funded Animal Health & Welfare (AH&W) training workshop provision. 

‘Maximising suckler cow productivity’ will be rolled out from early April, bringing the total number of...

Demonstration Sites, located throughout Wales, share examples of best practice, innovation and new technologies.

Focus Sites demonstrate ‘one-off’ projects on a wide range of topics these are to help address opportunities or problems facing the industry.

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13 April 2022

Nia Davies: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The standard of pre-weaning nutrition can have long term effects on the performance of calves
• Feeding either milk replacer or whole milk comes with a variety of considerations
• Do not...

13 April 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Lameness has consistently been amongst the highest impacting diseases of dairy cattle in the UK.
• Average levels of lameness have remained high regardless of resources and programmes aimed at...

11 April 2022

Farming Connect has added an additional module to its fully-funded Animal Health & Welfare (AH&W) training workshop provision. 

‘Improving post-weaning lamb performance’ will be rolled out from early April, bringing the total number of...

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2021 - November 2021.

6 April 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University & Kate Hovers (MRCVS)

• The goat industry appears to be growing both in the UK and globally        
• Optimising production and welfare relating to differing goat biology compared to...

Dairy demonstration site Mountjoy in Treffgarne Pembrokeshire has had considerable success in the use of Selective Dry Cow Therapy to improve udder health as well as reducing the use of antibiotics. Here we see the steps and measures in management...