This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between April 2022 - July 2022.

9 December 2022

“However confident you are in your own ability, there are sometimes better or different ways of doing things.”

These are the words of William Williams, who keeps around 500 easy-care ewes at the 200-acre farm near...

25 November 2022

Farming Connect’s role is to inspire and challenge farmers throughout Wales to achieve the best from their farming systems, to run competitive, resilient and sustainable farm and forestry businesses. Since 2015, Farming Connect has helped Welsh...

11 November 2022

Setting up a new business growing, supplying and delivering boxes of fresh local produce has been a fast but rewarding learning curve for Sarah Evans. Sarah is the proud owner of Watery Lane Produce, a small...

1 November 2022

Adjusting housing and feed intakes around weaning has helped a Welsh calf-rearer significantly reduce incidence of pneumonia.

Hugh Jones and his mother, Glenys, who farm at Pentre Farm, Pentrecelyn, source Aberdeen Angus bull calves from Buitelaar...

Wanted! Keen, capable and competent farmer, committed to sustainable farming, for a share-farming opportunity in West Wales

Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded...

27 October 2022

Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded? Would you like the opportunity to be a share partner helping develop that...

25 October 2022

A herbal ley incorporating fewer species has been found to perform better than a more diverse seed mix with 17 plant varieties, during a trial on a Farming Connect demonstration site.

Aled and Dylan Jones and...