EIP Wales - Highlights - 26/05/2023
Between May 2017 and March 2023 EIP Wales funded 46 projects, worth £1.8m on a huge variety of topics across the farming and forestry sector.
Farming Connect’s new skills and training programme will help you and your business prepare for the future
22 May 2023
Are you and your business operating efficiently, sustainably, safely and profitably or would accessing Farming Connect’s comprehensive range of training options help get you up to speed?
Would additional skills or knowledge help prepare both...
Calling all commercial horticulture growers and potential growers… find out what’s available through Farming Connect’s new horticulture programme
15 May 2023
Are you an established horticulturalist, or one of Wales’ many small-scale niche commercial growers? Or maybe you are a land-owner looking for a sustainable new diversification opportunity? Farming Connect is this year reaching out to not...
Calling all commercial horticulture growers and potential growers… find out what’s available through Farming Connect’s new horticulture programme at this year’s Smallholding & Countryside Festival
15 May 2023
Are you an established horticulturalist, or one of Wales’ many small-scale niche commercial growers? Or maybe you are a land-owner looking for a sustainable new diversification opportunity? If you can answer yes to any of these...
Episode 78 - Should every farm business have a risk assessment plan in place?
In this episode Alison Harvey, Agri Supply Chain Advisor at Rural Advisor talks to Nerys Llewelyn Jones, Agri Advisor's founder director. Most farmers subconsciously who'd have a operational risk assessment plan, but should all businesses have a solid one in...
Embracing new ideas and opportunities on Welsh farms to be celebrated at industry event
19 April 2023
Celebrating the role of on-farm research carried out across Wales to embrace new ideas and opportunities will be in the spotlight at a key industry event in May.
Farmers and industry experts will meet at Gregynog...
Circular systems in agriculture part 2: Energy and Agriculture
3 April 2023
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Circularising energy on farms could reduce costs and greenhouse gasses and even generate revenue, or valuable by-products
- Technologies for producing energy for circular use on farms include those which...
Silvopoultry: Three birds, one stone
3 April 2023
Dr Saba Amir, IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Establishment of trees in hen ranges as part of a silvopoultry system is considered to improve poultry welfare, provide wider environmental benefits and increase local biodiversity.
- Because the...