Join Farming Connect at Pendre demonstration farm where you can hear from farmer Tom Evans about his farming system and learn more about current projects on improving leys and increasing soil organic matter. We will also be joined by grassland...

4 May 2021

Just over a year ago, dairy farmer Ifan Jones who farms around 200 acres in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys, discovered a major structural failure at the base of his above-the-ground slurry tank. The incident meant...

Join Farming Connect and Helen Ovens, ADAS for webinar on carbon on livestock farms.

The webinar will cover the following points:

• Key sources of emissions on livestock farms
• The carbon balance – storing and sequestration
• What do “carbon calculators”- do...

29 April 2021

The rooting depths of clovers and herbal leys can help Welsh livestock farms reduce nutrient run-off.

Tom Jones is aiming to use multi species leys and rotational grazing to improve feed efficiency and reduce inputs on...

28 April 2021

Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are...

28 April 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Technological advancement is undergoing rapid and continual development within the agricultural sector
• Technologies are moving towards more environmental considerations as a new focus for the sector as a whole ...

21 April 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• The environmental issues and emerging resistance to pesticides has prompted the consideration of alternative strategies, including biological agents.
• Toxins from bacteria have been incorporated into biopesticide formulations as efficient, specific...

21 April 2021

A Denbighshire sheep farm is harvesting wood from its woodland to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees.

Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare (ha) woodland...

19 April 2021

Wales’ ability to grow high quality grass could make it better placed to produce milk from sheep than regions with high numbers of dairy flocks.

Anglesey sheep farmer Huw Jones, who is aiming to establish his...

16 April 2021

A new online tool has been launched in Wales to help farmers cut ammonia emissions.

The new Clean Air Tool, which sits on the Farming Connect website, gives practical advice on steps farmers can take to...