Zoom Around The World - Share farming mobile dairy and poultry - Kingsclere - 21/11/2022
Nothing stays still for long at the two and a half thousand acre Kingsclere Estate. Progressive farming methods are at the heart of Estate Manager and Fourth Generation farmer, Tim May’s vision for Kinsclere.
Share farming with Ollie Chedgey...
EIP Wales - Pasture for Pollinators - 21/11/2022
Here’s David Edge, Cop House Farm and Bex Cartwright from the BBCT talking about the success of the EIP Wales project looking at conservation techniques to increase the number of pollinators, such as bumblebees, across six Calon Wen dairy farms...
14.8% uplift in vegetable performance with biochar and compost added to soil
17 November 2022
Adding biochar charcoal to a low nutrient compost has been shown to increase vegetable performance by an average of 14.8% over two growing seasons in market gardens in Wales.
Biochar, a type of charcoal produced during...
Land sparing and land sharing – considerations for farming with nature
16 November 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Land sparing and land sharing are two different perspectives on land management towards improving global biodiversity
- The Welsh Government’s Sustainable Farming Scheme proposal appears to favour a land sharing...
Ready, steady, slow! Slow-growing broilers are healthier and have more positive welfare
14 November 2022
Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Consumer demand for high welfare meat promoted by animal welfare groups and NGOs is driving the market of slow-growing broilers
- Slower-growing breeds have better health and welfare than fast-growing ones...
Sarah Evans, Watery Lane Produce - 11/11/2022
Seeds of ambition – how a farming entrepreneur turned her ‘lockdown’ gardening hobby into a new home-based veg box delivery business.
Seeds of ambition – how a farming entrepreneur turned her ‘lockdown’ gardening hobby into a new home-based veg box delivery business
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...
Trial shows quality grazing has greater effect on lamb growth than trace element supplements
10 November 2022
A Farming Connect trial has shown a cost benefit of up to £3.36/head from supplementing lambs with trace elements post-weaning; however, grass availability and parasite control had the biggest influence on the performance of animals in...
Calf pneumonia cases down to 10% after housing adjustments
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...