‘You are what you eat’ applies to sheep, too! Improving flock performance and increasing profitability with help from Farming Connect
1 February 2022
Ioan Jones is an experienced third-generation upland sheep farmer who farms with his wife Susan and son Aled at Dolyfelin near Builth Wells. The family realised that the flock of more than 800 Lleyn and Texel/Lleyn-cross...
Have you got an up-to-date business plan? Don’t miss out – apply now!
31 January 2022
Business looks bright for almost 4,500 Welsh farm and forestry businesses that have received support through the Farming Connect Advisory Service, with almost 7,000 claims for support already completed by the service. These are the industry...
Powys farmer Beccie Williams learned what it takes to run a successful commercial poultry enterprise thanks to Farming Connect
19 January 2022
Beccie Williams is a wife, a mum to three young children and now a full-time poultry farmer too. Beccie and her husband Matthew took over his parents’ tenanted beef and sheep farm in Llanbister, near Llandrindod...
Farming Connect – supporting farm and forestry businesses in Wales ‘get greener’, by making the changes that will help the world halt a climate catastrophe
10 November 2021
The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has got the world talking about global warming, climate change and the need for every country in the world to reduce its carbon footprint.
Every day this week...
Mentoring: Viticulture - learn from the best - 13/08/2021
Are you consider viticulture as your next diversification idea? World-class help is at hand through the Mentoring scheme by Robb Merchant of White Castle Vineyard, producer of Pinot Noir Reserve 2018, Decanter gold medal.
Investment opportunity for farmers looking to change direction and collaborate
12 July 2021
Annyalla Chicks Ltd is a family run business in the poultry industry in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, specialising in producing day-old chicks.
Through the Farming Connect Venture programme, this poultry business is hoping...
Venture: December 2020 – May 2021
This dashboard outlines Venture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 - May 2021.
Exciting times ahead for the fourth generation of a family farm in Bedwas – thanks to succession planning and a new glamping venture
28 June 2021
A new ‘glamping’ pod venture has helped secure the future of a 200 acre upland farm in South Wales, which is now set to stay in the family for the fourth generation.
When Linda Davies’s late...