Benefit People, Animals and Place August 2024 – January 2025
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between August 2024 – January 2025
Farming Connect ‘Try Out Fund’ aims to find an effective biological control against the nemesis of strawberry growers
11 July 2024
A Welsh soft fruit grower who once lost his entire strawberry harvest to an insect pest is establishing colonies of a predatory bug in the crop before and during the flowering stage in a bid to find...
Nut trial looks at viability of producing walnuts in Wales
08 May 2024
A Carmarthenshire couple are experimenting with growing nuts on their land.
Martyn Williams and Alison Harwood have planted walnut and sweet chestnut trees on a one-hectare south facing slope overlooking the River Towy.
They have chosen varieties...
Phytoremediation: The Role of Plants to Purify Agricultural Wastewaters
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, KEHub, Aberystwyth University.
April 2024
Phytoremediation is a green technology that involves the use of plants to remove toxic components or contaminants from either the air, within soil or from aqueous solutions.
Phytoremediation offers the potential...