Join Farming Connect and Peter Williams, Welsh Government to learn what 4G broadband is and to receive information on the grant available for this technology.

• What 4G broadband is, how it works and what are the benefits?
• How is 4G...

8 June 2020

One of Farming Connect’s latest one-to-one digital training offers is helping farmers avoid the use of unnecessary veterinary medicines. 

‘Prevention is better than cure when it comes to administering veterinary medicines to farm animals,’ according to...

4 June 2020

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The lipid profile of milk is easily manipulated through diet, reducing the amount of saturated fats and boosting levels of unsaturated fats.
• Grazing dairy cows on a diverse sward...

3 June 2020

When a visiting politician asked an impressionable 14 year old schoolgirl, Anna Truesdale from County Down in Northern Ireland, what she wanted to be when she grew up, his response to her reply was just the...

Farming Connect is responding to the current restrictions of Covid-19 by providing as many
services as it can either online or over the phone until normal face to face activities can resume. 

The following guidance on using Zoom webinars, Skype...

26 May 2020

The number of females registered with Farming Connect is less than half the number of males registered.  It’s a ratio that Eirwen Williams, director of rural programmes with Menter a Busnes, is determined to address.

“With...

Below is the 27th issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.

Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from...