15 May 2020

Goat meat producers with low stocking rates who turn herds out to graze on long swards intermittently are reporting significantly less worm challenges.

Four goat meat businesses in Wales have come together for a project that...

15 May 2020

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• There are many advantages to a pasture-based milking system including improved product quality, increased farm profitability and reduced environmental impacts.
• The main difficulty with pasture-based milk production systems is the...

Fertility is the foundation of every profitable suckler herd!

Dr Iwan Parry, Milfeddygon Dolgellau Veterinary surgery discussing the main factors which contributes to establishing a healthy and fertile herd.

• Pre-mating management
• Fertility test/indicators
• How to maintain good fertility
• Targets

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14 May 2020

Home-grown spring barley could help a Welsh suckler enterprise cut its bull beef finishing costs. 

The Griffith family planted 27 acres of the crop in two fields at Bodwi, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Mynytho...

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2019 – March 2020.

12 May 2020

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The cattle industry is a key provider of food-produce globally through both meat and milk production
• Technologies are increasingly being used to improve both animal welfare and productivity of...

Pig vet and specialist, Bob Stevenson discovering the considerations needed to help prevent diseases on pig units.

• Current biosecurity risks to pig farms, with an emphasis on diseases such as African Swine Fever.
• Biosecurity management protocols such as quarantining and...

6 May 2020

A Welsh suckler-to-beef enterprise is aiming to cut its calving period to 10 weeks by using bolus technology to aid heat detection in heifers and shorten the breeding period.

A compact calving period would optimise the...

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