Small-scale diversified ventures can ‘bring home the bacon’ for smallholders – Farming Connect goes online for this year’s ‘virtual’ Royal Welsh Smallholding & Countryside Festival
11 May 2021
Farming Connect will focus on ‘small scale’ diversification ventures that have the potential to scale up, in an online programme of events targeted at smallholders and farmers who are invited to ‘tune in’ for this year’s...
Business: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
Welsh Pasture Project: Andrew Giles, Maesllwch Home Farm - 05/05/2021
'We farm in one of the driest area in Wales. One of the things that we've learnt over the 20 years that we've been here is to try and predict and look out for a drought that's coming our way...
WEBINAR: Demo Farm Live: Pendre
Join Farming Connect at Pendre demonstration farm where you can hear from farmer Tom Evans about his farming system and learn more about current projects on improving leys and increasing soil organic matter. We will also be joined by grassland...
Powys dairy farmer turns a potential environmental catastrophe into success story
4 May 2021
Just over a year ago, dairy farmer Ifan Jones who farms around 200 acres in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys, discovered a major structural failure at the base of his above-the-ground slurry tank. The incident meant...
Episode 41 - Welsh couple climbing the New Zealand farming ladder
In 2016, Nia Jones and her husband Marc left Wales to follow their dairy farming dream in New Zealand. Three years later, they came runners up in the national Share Farmer of the Year competition in New Zealand. Quite an...
Farmer to finish lambs on herbal leys after seeing the benefits first-hand
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...
Farming Connect’s skills application window opens as face-to-face training resumes
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...