Surgeries - Understanding your Rural Payment Wales Online Account (RPW) - 19/05/2022
One to One sessions with Farm Liaison Service officer to help you understand and provide guidance on accessing your Rural Payment Wales online account.
Farm Business Diversification – A Research Perspective
19 May 2022
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Agricultural diversification is a complex situation to assess with different effects regionally and globally
- Diversification can play significant roles in the financial stability of farm businesses with larger farms...
Pick-your-own pumpkins project shows major income potential for growers
18 May 2022
A fruit and vegetable grower who generated pick-your-own (PYO) pumpkin sales of £7,500 from 0.5 acres of land says admission fees, catering and other sales and attractions could take the income potential for farmers as high...
Spotlight on ammonia reduction strategies for Welsh poultry producers
17 May 2022
A Welsh study has refocused attention on strategies for reducing ammonia emissions in the poultry sector, with farmers urged to adopt measures including good ventilation and litter and manure management protocols to lower levels.
A three-year...
Folly Farm manager Kim Brickell always turns to Farming Connect when she wants to learn a new skill!
16 May 2022
“Farming is a fast-moving, progressive industry so there is always new science we need to be aware of and innovative, more efficient ways of doing things,” says Kim Brickell, a farm manager at one of Wales’...
Folly Farm manager, Kim Brickell - 16/05/2022
Folly Farm manager Kim Brickell always turns to Farming Connect when she wants to learn a new skill!
Farmers urged to rethink hedge trimming policies to benefit nature and livestock
13 May 2022
Welsh farmers have been assured that measures that protect and increase biodiversity on their farms can be easily integrated and have benefits for their livestock.
Farms already have valuable assets in their hedges and trees. By...
Smaller market gardens could benefit from labour savings identified in weeding study
6 May 2022
A Welsh market garden cut weeding time in some of its vegetable beds by nearly half, by switching from hand-hoeing to a wheel hoe with weeding discs.
A Farming Connect study at Glebelands Market Garden showed...
Episode 62 - A young Pembrokeshire potato grower making his mark
With the potato planting season well underway in Pembrokeshire, we caught up with Euros Davies - a relative newcomer to the business of growing potatoes. On his family’s block of land near Milford Haven, he’s been busy planting potatoes ready...
The effect of production system on the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid profiles of milk
27 April 2022
Dr Emma Davies: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- The fatty acid composition of milk can be manipulated by making changes to a cow’s diet.
- The milk of cows grazing fresh grass have higher levels of unsaturated fatty...