Celebrating our farms at the Winter Fair
25 November 2022
Farming Connect’s role is to inspire and challenge farmers throughout Wales to achieve the best from their farming systems, to run competitive, resilient and sustainable farm and forestry businesses. Since 2015, Farming Connect has helped Welsh...
Zoom Around The World - Share farming mobile dairy and poultry - Kingsclere - 21/11/2022
Nothing stays still for long at the two and a half thousand acre Kingsclere Estate. Progressive farming methods are at the heart of Estate Manager and Fourth Generation farmer, Tim May’s vision for Kinsclere.
Share farming with Ollie Chedgey...
EIP Wales - Pasture for Pollinators - 21/11/2022
Here’s David Edge, Cop House Farm and Bex Cartwright from the BBCT talking about the success of the EIP Wales project looking at conservation techniques to increase the number of pollinators, such as bumblebees, across six Calon Wen dairy farms...
Ready, steady, slow! Slow-growing broilers are healthier and have more positive welfare
14 November 2022
Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Consumer demand for high welfare meat promoted by animal welfare groups and NGOs is driving the market of slow-growing broilers
- Slower-growing breeds have better health and welfare than fast-growing ones...
Trial shows quality grazing has greater effect on lamb growth than trace element supplements
10 November 2022
A Farming Connect trial has shown a cost benefit of up to £3.36/head from supplementing lambs with trace elements post-weaning; however, grass availability and parasite control had the biggest influence on the performance of animals in...
Episode 72-Tree planting working for a 500 cow dairy unit at Hendre Llwyn y Maen
Hendre Llwyn y Maen is a hill farm of approximately 400 acres with additional in buy land rising up to 1100ft above sea level . Robin Crossley, the owner, is a keen environmentalist and values the woodlands as an important...
Calf pneumonia cases down to 10% after housing adjustments
1 November 2022
Adjusting housing and feed intakes around weaning has helped a Welsh calf-rearer significantly reduce incidence of pneumonia.
Hugh Jones and his mother, Glenys, who farm at Pentre Farm, Pentrecelyn, source Aberdeen Angus bull calves from Buitelaar...
Gwarmacwydd - Venture - 28/10/2022
Wanted! Keen, capable and competent farmer, committed to sustainable farming, for a share-farming opportunity in West Wales
Do you want to venture into running a farm business? A business where your skills, knowledge and efforts will be recognised and rewarded...