09 July 2024
Llyr Griffiths, from Tafarn y Bugail in Llangoedmor, Ceredigion aims to improve the farm’s sustainability and reduce reliance on purchased feed for his 500-cow dairy herd by companion cropping maize with sunflowers.
With the increasing cost of...
03 July 2024
With mentoring from an experienced farmer, a Powys lamb producer says the performance of his farm and flock has never been so good.
James Ruggeri runs a mixed flock of 200 ewes on 50 acres of...
26 June 2024
Lambs produced by an organic hill flock of Welsh ewes are hitting finishing weights two weeks earlier since performance recording was introduced to improve genetics.
The Parry family have been performance recording for four years, in the...
24 June 2024
In the days when Sara Edwards’ great-grandmother farmed, agriculture had an informal network of mentors in the shape of her neighbouring farmers, sharing ideas and passing on knowledge. Three generations later and Sara sees...
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between October - December 2023
06 June 2024
A project by David & Will Lewis, Treforgan, Llandrindod Wells, has been awarded funding through the Farming Connect Try Out Fund. The project, which will be comparing lamb performance on different leys is one of 17...
Welcome to Ear to the Ground. This is a two part episode focusing on the information disseminated to farmers at a recent Farming Connect Event at Dylasau Uchaf, Padog, Dyffryn Conwy. If you haven’t yet listened to the previous episode...
In this two part episode we visit one of our focus farms involved on Our Farm Network. Beca Glyn and the family farm at Dylasau Uchaf, Padog, Dyffryn Conwy and has this year been working in collaboration with Farming Connect...
13 May 2024
The Smallholding and Countryside Festival at the Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, is back on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 2024, where Farming Connect will be present to provide you with support and advice. Whether you...
08 May 2024
A Carmarthenshire couple are experimenting with growing nuts on their land.
Martyn Williams and Alison Harwood have planted walnut and sweet chestnut trees on a one-hectare south facing slope overlooking the River Towy.
They have chosen varieties...
