Livestock: August 2020 – November 2020
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2020 – November 2020.
Multiple small feeds better than one for ewes in later stage of pregnancy
4 January 2021
Sheep farmers should avoid feeding heavily pregnant ewes more than 0.5kg of concentrates in a single feed, a vet has advised.
A ewe’s daily nutrition requirements in the third trimester is best allocated over two feeds...
Can Chicory hold key to higher lamb DLWG at Denbighshire sheep farm? - 18/12/2020
Non Williams our technical officer and Hugh Jones, Pentre Farm a Farming Connect Demonstration Sites reflects on the outcomes from the first year project.
Air pollution: Reducing ammonia emissions by adapting livestock management approaches
17 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Ammonia is a key contributor to air pollution levels, as it can become particulate matter after combination with other pollutant materials from a range of sources...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Can precision technologies help?
17 December 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Antimicrobial resistance is a major concern across human and animal health
- Moving away from blanket antimicrobial treatments is having positive effects on AMR but more focus is needed on...
Air pollution: The role of agriculture in Wales
16 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current levels of air pollution present a major health risk.
- Ammonia emitted as a result of agricultural activities can contribute to particulate matter formation (a key...
Home-rearing bull beef on ad-lib concentrates and straw has worked out marginally cheaper for a Welsh suckler enterprise than out-sourcing the job to a finishing unit.
9 December 2020
The Griffith family run a herd of 145 Stabiliser cows at Bodwi, near Pwllheli, and had historically finished half their bull beef animals themselves and the others at a specialist unit in Yorkshire.
As a...
Ewe lambs can eat 3% of liveweight per day on well managed Fodder beet
9 December 2020
Ewe lambs and yearlings can eat more than three per cent of their liveweight a day grazing fodder beet but the crop must have good leaf cover and be correctly allocated to achieve this intake for...