26 February 2024
This spring, the Farming Connect Agri Academy Alumni totals exactly 300 people, each proud to reflect on the time spent on the Farming Connect flagship personal development residential programme as an invaluable experience. Some even call it...
22 November 2023
Farmers in Wales looking to improve their technical or business knowledge in multiple sectors of agriculture can learn new skills and practices at a series of Farming Connect ‘masterclasses’ that are taking place across Wales in...
05 October 2023
With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing grass with rock dust to establishing farm-scale tea bushes on hill land already underway in Wales, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
