05 October 2023

With Farming Connect-funded trials ranging from growing grass with rock dust to establishing farm-scale tea bushes on hill land already underway in Wales, farmers are being invited to apply for the next round of funding from...

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

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...

17 March 2023

Food processing and butchery, sheep dog handling, viticulture and regenerative farming – in the current Farming Connect programme - approved mentors offer fully funded one-to-one support on an increasingly wide range of topics.

“Receiving confidential one-to-one...

Nadine Evans has got no farming background whatsoever – but where there’s a will there’s often a way and ‘farming is all I ever wanted to do!’ Now in her early 50s, Liverpool-born Nadine is finally living the rural dream...

22 February 2023

Nadine Evans has got no farming background whatsoever – but where there’s a will there’s often a way and ‘farming is all I ever wanted to do!’ Now in her early 50s, Liverpool-born Nadine is finally...

25 January 2023

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Following birth, livestock are highly susceptible to diseases and mortality rates are high
• Management of the newborn’s navel region is important to prevent infections from tracking through to the...