This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...

“There aren’t enough hours in the day” for entrepreneurial young Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson

30 September 2022

“I would not be where I am today if it were not for Farming Connect,” says Pembrokeshire dairy farmer Scott Robinson. Scott (25) is ambitious, focused and also very busy! He works alongside his parents at...

27/09/2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University

• The development of synthetic nitrogen (N) production allowed a boom in agricultural yields and population growth worldwide
• Whilst N is growth-limiting, it is regularly applied at levels where less than half is...

22/09/2022

Welsh farms are losing 5t/acre of soil every time the thickness equivalent of a one-pence coin is eroded from fields left bare in the winter.

“That soil isn’t replaced, and that’s your livelihoods being washed away; you need...

This episode will be the first in a series introduced by a range of guest presenter on a variety of topics from Welsh Agriculture and beyond. The first guest presenter will be a familiar voice to the podcast, Rhys Williams...

20 September 2022

Monitoring ewes and managing their body condition score (BCS) has helped to reduce the rate of barren and aborted ewes by 6.4% in a Welsh flock, helping to lift profit margin by £3.34 a ewe to...

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