Keeping up with essential continual professional development through Farming Connect training while Storfa Sgiliau provides ‘proof of the pudding’
8 March 2023
When First Milk, one of the UK’s leading dairy processing companies, comes calling for one of its regular animal health audits at Great Molleston Farm, a 400 acre dairy farm near Narberth, young farmer Hannah Phillips...
FC - Issue 43 - January/February 2023
Below is the 43rd 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...
Livestock: August 2022 – December 2022
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2022 - December 2022.
A Welsh suckler beef farm is achieving average daily liveweight gains (DLWG) of 2.4kg in bulls it finishes at 13 months on a ration formulated with a high level of its own rolled barley.
27 February 2023
Bryn Farm, a Farming Connect demonstration site, near Cardigan, has for the last three years worked alongside Farming Connect on projects to improve the performance and sustainability of the business.
These have included producing bull...
Carmarthenshire farmer learning everything he needs to know about modern farming through Farming Connect
27 February 2023
His parents introduced him to the hands-on ‘land and livestock’ side of farming at an early age but for Carmarthenshire-born Dylan Morgan, it’s Farming Connect that keeps this construction management graduate ‘bang up to date’. Dylan...
Control of Dermanyssus gallinae, the poultry red mite using Integrated Pest Management
27 February 2023
Saba Amir, IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Dermanyssus gallinae is a serious threat to laying hens and egg production in many parts of the world
- Acaricide resistance and changes in pesticide legislations have made the management of...
“It’s never too late to learn about farming” - 22/02/2023
Nadine Evans has got no farming background whatsoever – but where there’s a will there’s often a way and ‘farming is all I ever wanted to do!’ Now in her early 50s, Liverpool-born Nadine is finally living the rural dream...