Land: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
Business: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
Livestock: December 2020 – March 2021
This dashboard outlines livestock key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2020 – March 2021.
WEBINAR: Carbon myth busting on livestock farms - 04/05/2021
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...
Farming Connect’s skills application window opens as face-to-face training resumes
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...
AgriTech 4.0: Future perspectives for technology
28 April 2021
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Technological advancement is undergoing rapid and continual development within the agricultural sector
- Technologies are moving towards more environmental considerations as a new focus for the sector as a whole ...
Natural regeneration replacing harvested trees in farm woodland
21 April 2021
A Denbighshire sheep farm is harvesting wood from its woodland to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees.
Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare (ha) woodland...
Regenerative agriculture: buzzword and beyond
15 April 2021
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Regenerative agriculture aims to shift away from productivity and sustaining outputs towards the four R’s, renewal, recovery, replacement and repair of ecosystems.
- Many farmers already use individual regenerative practices...
FC - Issue 32 - March/April 2021
Below is the 32nd 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...