This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between September 2021 - December 2021.

Demonstration Sites, located throughout Wales, share examples of best practice, innovation and new technologies.

Focus Sites demonstrate ‘one-off’ projects on a wide range of topics these are to help address opportunities or problems facing the industry.

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Our guest this week is the journalist, broadcaster, author and Nuffield Farming Scholar, Anna Jones. Anna grew up on her family’s upland farm on the Welsh borders and is often heard on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme. Earlier this...

11 April 2022

Farming Connect has added an additional module to its fully-funded Animal Health & Welfare (AH&W) training workshop provision. 

‘Improving post-weaning lamb performance’ will be rolled out from early April, bringing the total number of...

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2021 - November 2021.

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2021 - November 2021.

This dashboard outlines Venture key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between June 2021 - November 2021.

6 April 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University & Kate Hovers (MRCVS)

• The goat industry appears to be growing both in the UK and globally        
• Optimising production and welfare relating to differing goat biology compared to...

4 April 2022

A Welsh sheep farm has reduced its bedding costs by 75%, and significantly improved the incidence of ewe lameness at housing since switching from straw bedding to a slatted floor.

Plastic slats were retrofitted to a...

1 April 2022

A lamb producer who is pioneering methods of improving the persistency and quality of grazing leys on marginal land in the Welsh uplands has won a major new grassland management award.

John Yeomans, who is involved...