24 Oct 2023 News Agriculture, Business, Sustainability, Grants, Digital tools and technology Six ways Farming Connect can help bring diversification ideas to life Diversifying into a non-farming business venture is now commonplace as Welsh farmers look to secure their financial future, with many tapping into
23 Oct 2023 News Environment New plan sets out road to recovery as Wales faces nature crisis “We need to take every opportunity to support nature and we want to use the land we own around our road network to help it recover.” Those were the
20 Oct 2023 News Agriculture, Food and drink, Grants, Sustainability Can tea be grown successfully on Welsh hill farms? The suitability of Welsh hill farms for growing productive crops of tea is being investigated in a detailed study underway in Powys. Mandy Lloyd
19 Oct 2023 News Agriculture A performance-recording project across 107 flocks in Wales has set out with the ambition of improving the efficiency of Welsh sheep flocks We visit one of the farms involved in the new Farming Connect Welsh Sheep Genetics Programme. A sheep needs to be hardy to thrive in terrain that
18 Oct 2023 News Agriculture, Sustainability, Grants Lucerne trial could help sheep farms be climate change resilient A Welsh sheep farm is hoping to increase resilience in its lamb finishing system by growing drought-tolerant lucerne. The deep-rooted nitrogen-fixing
17 Oct 2023 News Agriculture Historic Total Ban on Snares and Glue Traps use comes into force Wales’ historic total ban on the use of snares and glue traps comes into force from today (17 October) helping end the indiscriminate suffering of
17 Oct 2023 News Agriculture, Grants, Environment, Sustainability Powys farmers trialling rock dust’s potential as a grass nutrient Two grassland farms in Powys are researching whether a rock dust sourced from a local quarry can provide sufficient nutrients to grow grass through a