17 May 2021

Growing herbal leys is helping a Welsh suckler beef farm grow and finish cattle at pasture while reducing its nitrogen use.

Huw and Meinir Jones grow 6.5 hectares (ha) of a seed mix incorporating deep rooting...

Join Farming Connect and guest speakers Prysor Williams Bangor University, and Liz Genever, independent beef and sheep specialist to learn more about carbon footprinting and how to reduce on-farm emissions by improving production efficiencies.

The webinar will also provide an...

12 May 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Good quality colostrum given in the right time frame and of the correct volume is essential for any newborn animal, containing vital antibodies, fat and protein.
• Significant variation in...

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

29 April 2021

The rooting depths of clovers and herbal leys can help Welsh livestock farms reduce nutrient run-off.

Tom Jones is aiming to use multi species leys and rotational grazing to improve feed efficiency and reduce inputs on...

28 April 2021

Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...