Folly Farm manager Kim Brickell always turns to Farming Connect when she wants to learn a new skill!

13 May 2022

Welsh farmers have been assured that measures that protect and increase biodiversity on their farms can be easily integrated and have benefits for their livestock.

Farms already have valuable assets in their hedges and trees. By...

28 April 2022

“Don’t ever take a newly calved cow’s behaviour for granted… even the most docile animals can turn in seconds, as I learned to my cost.”

These are the words of Robert Lewis, a highly experienced Mid...

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

19 April 2022

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

‘Maximising suckler cow productivity’ will be rolled out from early April, bringing the total number of...

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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13 April 2022

Nia Davies: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The standard of pre-weaning nutrition can have long term effects on the performance of calves
• Feeding either milk replacer or whole milk comes with a variety of considerations
• Do not...

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.