Agrisgôp’s role in germinating successful farm diversification business
28 November 2024
It has been a remarkable trajectory for farmer Cheryl Reeves in the six years since she utilised Farming Connect’s Agrisgôp programme to first explore the seed of her farm business diversification idea.
That business, the community interest...
Benefit People, Animals and Place August 2024 – January 2025
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2024 – January 2025
Agrisgôp farmers take new approach to grassland utilisation
31 July 2024
A group of women farmers from north Wales have been inspired to put systems in place to reduce their livestock feed costs, including adopting rotational grazing principles.
An opportunity to join a Farming Connect Agrisgôp group led...
Planning ahead for farm succession is a game changer, in more ways than one!
23 July 2024
Farming Connect launch a recruitment campaign for a new Agrisgôp group that will get ‘ahead of the game’ by developing the concept of using games to facilitate farm succession.
In the last twelve months, Farming Connect...
Land - September – November 2023
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between September – November 2023
Farmers see value in peer-to-peer learning to improve cow foot health
31 August 2023
Dairy farmers rate peer-to-peer learning as one of the most valuable routes to tackling lameness in their herds, an important new study in Wales involving more than 5,400 cows has found.
The research was undertaken as...
Agrisgôp helps sheep farmers on quest to advance flock genetics
24 August 2023
New genetics to help progress the advancement of wool shedding sheep in Wales have been introduced into three Welsh flocks.
The farmers, who all run flocks of EasyCare sheep, were brought together by the Farming Connect...
Massive Montgomeryshire barn conversion a spectacular success thanks to business support from Farming Connect
12/07/2023
“Their resilience shone through and their courage paid off!” These are the words of Mid Wales farmer Keri Davies, a well-known Farming Connect mentor and diversification expert, who supported a Montgomeryshire farming family ‘every step of the way’...
Business: October 2015 – March 2023
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between October 2015 – March 2023