Free e-learning modules build knowledge and skills on family farm
27 August 2024
Biodiversity is at the heart of Peter and Cathryn Richards’ approach to farming, enriching the environment for insects and farmland birds with an abundance of wildflowers and grass species on their land.
The brother and sister...
Episode 107 - Lameness in Dairy Cattle: Episode 2
Sara Pedersen visits Maenhir Farm, Whitland where father and son Richard and Iwan Twose host a Agrisgôp Group meeting. We join Sara and the Pembrokeshire based group farms to hear on how they draw on other group members and share...
Feeding transition milk to newborn calves in their first 10 days and enriching it according to their immunoglobulin G (IgG) status has helped a Pembrokeshire dairy farm slash mortality rates pre-weaning by almost two-thirds.
20 August 2024
Will and Alex Prichard calve 500 cows in a spring block at Escalwen, near Letterston, and also run two 200-cow autumn calving herds.
That high throughput of calves can present disease challenges - in the three years...
Farming Connect advice workshop a first step in farm’s flock transition
13 August 2024
Farming Connect’s Welsh Sheep Genetics Project (WSGP) is helping to facilitate major change in a large-scale sheep flock.
The Rhug Estate near Corwen had been running a flying flock of 3,750 North of England-type...
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...
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies will hear how Farming Connect’s ‘Start to Farm’ scheme is safeguarding the future prosperity of family farms in Wales at this year’s Royal Welsh Show
18 July 2024
“Matching landowners wanting or needing to step back from the industry with younger farmers or new entrants keen to gain a foothold in farming is not only invigorating and modernising Welsh agriculture but also safeguarding the future...
Farming Connect announces Agri Academy Class of 2024
15 July 2024
The names of this year’s intake selected to take part in the Agri Academy 2024 have been announced.
The successful candidates will meet for the first time at a reception at the Royal Welsh Show on Tuesday...