This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January – March 2024

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

Gaining a better understanding of our soils and silage: we are not heavy users of purchased feeds but want to...

Project objectives:

• Maximise dry matter output from productive areas of the hill farm through looking at grass and forage crop options, primarily...

Sustainability of our natural resources, especially our rivers and watercourses need our attention and focus to ensure we are being proactive and working together to ensure their sustainable...

Project Objectives:

Determine the overall soil health of all fields

Detect where there is any correlation between worm numbers, grass growth...

Project aims: 

• This project will focus on disease prevention in calves and youngstock, looking at best practice and management tools to reduce respiratory diseases.
• The project will...

William and Katy Fox milk 350 autumn block calving British Friesians supplying First Milk through its regenerative farming programme; they are consequently keen on producing milk that is as environmentally friendly as possible...

This is a two – day advanced level training course which will cover instruction and practical training in the following:

The Advanced Shearing course will help those that can already competently shear a sheep to improve their skills further by...

Around 2.32 million home and business energy contracts actively switched energy contracts in 2023, up 78% on the 1.3 million switches in 2022. The increase in switches largely came about due to the stabilization of prices off the back of...

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

To optimise liveweight gain from forage

To consider which approaches are most effective for rectifying trace element shortfalls in our soils...