Dairy: January - April 2022
This dashboard outlines key dairy activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January - April 2022.
This dashboard outlines key dairy activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January - April 2022.
This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2022 - April 2022.
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...
Richard Rees
Farm name and location: Penmaen Bach, Pennal, Machynlleth
Sector: Red Meat (Sheep)
Being lightly stocked, we have been lucky over the last couple of months; we have managed to keep average farm cover fairly consistent around 2200kgDM/ha, with...
26 September 2022
Protocols to tackle persistent cryptosporidium infection impacting lamb and calf health and performance at a Welsh livestock farm are being informed by the findings of a European Innovation Programme (EIP) Wales project that pinpointed the source...
26 September 2022
Using ewe efficiency data to guide breeding decisions in a Welsh upland flock has demonstrated the value of performance-recording in hill breeds, as those figures show that the top performing females in the flock are rearing...
In the last episode of the podcast we heard about the three 'P's of sustainable farming. This time we'll here about the three 'T's- teeth, testicles and toes with vet Tom Searle as he discusses a very important procedure 'The...