1 June 2023

Over 1500 farming businesses from across Wales have benefitted from multi sector discussion groups delivered through Farming Connect since 2015. As we open the application window for 2023 now is your time to benefit from all...

Below is the 1st issue of the Farming Connect Technical Publication since the launch of the new programme in April 2023. 

It includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters for farmers in Wales, allowing...

26 May 2023

European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Wales has celebrated six years of funding on-farm projects with a recent conference near Newtown to mark the culmination of the programme. The EIP Wales programme ended in March 2023 but a...

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.

22 May 2023

Applications are now open for a new fund where Farming Connect is making £5,000 available for farmers and growers to try-out their ideas and bring them to life. 

Farming Connect has developed the Try-out fund, to...

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...

This dashboard outlines red meat key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between September 2022 - January 2023.

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...