EIP Wales - Highlights - 26/05/2023
Between May 2017 and March 2023 EIP Wales funded 46 projects, worth £1.8m on a huge variety of topics across the farming and forestry sector.
Farming Connect’s new skills and training programme will help you and your business prepare for the future
22 May 2023 Are you and your business operating efficiently, sustainably, safely and profitably or would accessing Farming Connect’s comprehensive range of training options help get you up to speed? Would additional skills or knowledge help prepare both you and...
Menter a Busnes to appoint 100 mentors for new Farming Connect programme
17 March 2023 Food processing and butchery, sheep dog handling, viticulture and regenerative farming – in the current Farming Connect programme - approved mentors offer fully funded one-to-one support on an increasingly wide range of topics. “Receiving confidential one-to-one guidance...
Big on bees and biodiversity – practice makes perfect for a Radnorshire beekeeper, with a helping hand from her Farming Connect mentor
13 December 2022 “Thanks to receiving mentoring from an award-winning beekeeper, I’ve got the confidence and skills to know that I’m doing all I can for my Welsh black bees and their wellbeing.” Carys Edwards is an award-winning beekeeper, honey-producer...
Mentoring can save you time and money!
9 December 2022 “However confident you are in your own ability, there are sometimes better or different ways of doing things.” These are the words of William Williams, who keeps around 500 easy-care ewes at the 200-acre farm near Bangor...
EIP Wales - Pasture for Pollinators - 21/11/2022
Here’s David Edge, Cop House Farm and Bex Cartwright from the BBCT talking about the success of the EIP Wales project looking at conservation techniques to increase the number of pollinators, such as bumblebees, across six Calon Wen dairy farms...
Minister on two-day summer tour visiting Farming Connect sites in Mid & South West Wales
19 August 2021 The past two days, Minister for Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths, has met with representatives from Farming Connect’s demonstration and innovation project sites and service users in Mid and South West Wales. Discussing projects undertaken, innovation and development...