Funding window to re-open for on-farm trials in Wales
20 Jannuary 2025
With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing lucerne in Brecon to establishing sunflowers as a companion crop with maize, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from the initiative that brought...
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, congratulates ‘the best of the best’ for the Lantra Cymru Awards 2024
17 January 2025
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, has congratulated each of the winners and nominees for the Lantra Cymru Awards 2024. Attending this year’s awards celebration event (16...
Farming Connect roadshow to advise farmers on succession planning and proposed IHT relief cut
8 January 2025
As Welsh farming families consider the implications of the UK government’s plan to limit 100% agricultural and business relief for inheritance tax (IHT) to the first £1m of value, Farming Connect is launching a roadshow of...
Episode 110 - Breeding sheep with a lower carbon footprint
Suzanne Rowe is a Senior Researcher with AgResearch in New Zealand, and is the world expert in breeding sheep with a lower carbon footprint. Suzanne will outline the background of the work happening in NZ and the history behind developing...
Discussion group membership helps family farm utilise fresh ideas
12 December 2024
A small-scale pedigree beef producer is capitalising on his limited resources by utilising best practice ideas gained from a network of fellow farmers brought together by Farming Connect as a discussion group.
Peter Lowe, who farms with...