Join Farming Connect and vet Kate Burnby, the specialist consultant in a project at Nantglas demonstration site, to discuss what changes can contribute to improved fertility and tightened calving block.

• What is an achievable tight calving pattern?
• Planning & goal...

4 June 2020

Persistent dry weather conditions during recent months have led Farming Connect’s red meat demonstration sites to adjust management practices to meet the challenges they’re facing. It has become evident that reduced grass growth rates and diminishing...

4 June 2020

A Welsh dairy farm is proving that it is possible to run a high yielding Holstein herd on a grazing system.

Paddock grazing is commonly associated with block-calving herds of cows bred specifically for producing milk...

4 June 2020

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The lipid profile of milk is easily manipulated through diet, reducing the amount of saturated fats and boosting levels of unsaturated fats.
• Grazing dairy cows on a diverse sward...

2 June 2020

An intensive bull beef finishing system could help a Ceredigion suckler enterprise add value to cattle.
Huw and Meinir Jones want to maximise herd efficiency, productivity and profitability at Bryn, a Farming Connect demonstration site near...

1 June 2020

The recent prolonged spell of dry weather has led to some of Farming Connect’s Dairy demonstration sites needing to adjust their feeding and silage making regime to cope with low soil moisture levels. 

Grass growth rates...

Here is the second webinar in a series of dairy lunchtime webinars.

The milking liner is the only part of the milking machine that's in contact with the cow. As such, the properties of the liner have a big impact...