First things first…Farming Connect’s new mandatory e-learning courses will give you a great head-start before practical training
09 August 2023
From September 2023 onwards, all Farming Connect learners will be required to complete fully funded mandatory e-learning courses ahead of applying for more than half of the programme’s subsidised accredited training courses.
With almost 80 accredited...
Benefit People, Animals and Place August – October 2023
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August – October 2023
Farming Connect unveils new ‘Our Farms’ network of 15 Welsh farms
31 July 2023
A new network, Farming Connect Our Farms, is taking a lead on helping Welsh agriculture transition to a net zero future with the farms involved trialling novel innovations and technologies in their own systems.
Farming Connect officially...
New GHG study points to encouraging results for Welsh beef and sheep farms
19 July 2023
A Farming Connect study of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by red meat enterprises has shown that Welsh farms are below the benchmark for similar farms across the UK.
185 Welsh farms had a detailed carbon...
Episode 82 - Sheep milking in Wales
Lamb, mutton and wool, those are the products we are familiar with when farming sheep in Wales. Now, we should add sheep's milk to the list, as we see 14 farmers this year milking sheep. Two of these innovative individuals...
Episode 81 - Dairy's ethical future
Angharad Menna, another new presenter on this podcast interviews her first guest, Anna Bowen a Nuffield Scholar (sponsored by Elizabeth Creake Charitable Trust) which has travelled the World to study the future of ethical dairy farming. Within this hour long...
Resilient and Productive July – September 2023
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between July – September 2023
Reduce on farm emissions and maximise carbon sequestration July – September 2023
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between July – September 2023