From front-line nurse to front-line farmer, with a helping hand from Farming Connect
21 June 2021
Pembrokeshire-born Emma Roberts had a part-time job she loved at a busy GP surgery in Whitland. Therefore, why did qualified nurse Emma, who has been at the front-line of the profession for more than 30 years...
Are you ready for a new challenge, to be who you want to be? It’s time to apply for this year’s Agri Academy!
7 June 2021
Are you ready for a challenge? A challenge that could help you achieve your personal ambitions, create new professional development opportunities and give you the confidence to aim high, to believe in yourself and what you...
‘Thinking outside the box’ - partnership approach pays dividends for Ceredigion family’s milk vending diversification project
1 June 2021
Thinking outside the box, or to be more precise, a highly customised horse box, where you can buy ‘farm fresh’ milk from a ‘mobile’ vending machine, has proved a winning idea for a family of third-generation...
Llaeth Llanfair enterprise - 01/06/2021
Thinking outside the box, or to be more precise, a highly customised horse box, where you can buy ‘farm fresh’ milk from a ‘mobile’ vending machine, has proved a winning idea for a family of third-generation Ceredigion dairy farmers now...
Small-scale diversified ventures can ‘bring home the bacon’ for smallholders – Farming Connect goes online for this year’s ‘virtual’ Royal Welsh Smallholding & Countryside Festival
11 May 2021
Farming Connect will focus on ‘small scale’ diversification ventures that have the potential to scale up, in an online programme of events targeted at smallholders and farmers who are invited to ‘tune in’ for this year’s...
Business: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
Powys dairy farmer turns a potential environmental catastrophe into success story
4 May 2021
Just over a year ago, dairy farmer Ifan Jones who farms around 200 acres in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys, discovered a major structural failure at the base of his above-the-ground slurry tank. The incident meant...
Farming Connect’s skills application window opens as face-to-face training resumes
28 April 2021
Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...