20 Jannuary 2025

With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing lucerne in Brecon to establishing sunflowers as a companion crop with maize, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from the initiative that brought...

17 January 2025

Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, has congratulated each of the winners and nominees for the Lantra Cymru Awards 2024.  Attending this year’s awards celebration event (16...

Janet Roden will outline the work that has taken place in Wales on lowering the carbon footprint of sheep, and how farmers that are part of the Welsh Sheep Genetics Programme with Farming Connect can get involved.

Suzanne Rowe is a Senior Researcher with AgResearch in New Zealand, and is the world expert in breeding sheep with a lower carbon footprint. Suzanne will outline the background of the work happening in NZ and the history behind developing...

12 December 2024

A small-scale pedigree beef producer is capitalising on his limited resources by utilising best practice ideas gained from a network of fellow farmers brought together by Farming Connect as a discussion group.

Peter Lowe, who farms with...

11 December 2024

Many Welsh farms are missing out on grass yield potential because they fall short on pH and key macronutrients (P, K, Mg), a Farming Connect report of agricultural soils has shown.

More than 3,000 soil samples were...

11 December 2024

Marginal gains achieved from multiple factors, ranging from increasing scanning and rearing percentages to finishing lambs earlier, will combine to both reduce emissions and increase profitability in Welsh sheep flocks.

Many of the key performance indicators (KPIs)...

This deep-rooted nitrogen-fixing plant has leaves with an average crude protein content of 24% and a metabolisable energy value of 12, providing high quality grazing for lambs at Newton Farm, Brecon, because sheep mostly graze the leaves, not the lower...