Speakers:

Keith Owen, Environment Consultant and a Director of KeBeK Ltd who specialises in delivering infrastructure on-farm advice

Chris Duller, independent consultant specialising in delivering soil and grassland management advice across all of the livestock sectors

Earlier this year...

Below is the 33rd issue of Farming Connect’s technical publication for farmers and foresters in Wales.

Published bi-monthly, it includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters, along with the latest information and research from our...

3 June 2021

Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• In response to DEFRA’s consultation on the regulation of genetic technologies in English agriculture, gene editing (GE) has become a popular topic of conversation.
• GE encompasses a variety of...

26 May 2021

Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Wales' GHG emissions, and it has a crucial role to play in helping Wales meet its commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. 

Similarly, agriculture is central to addressing...

20 May 2021

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
• For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...

This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.

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...

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...