Welcome to this edition of FCTV where we will visit farmers who have set out to look carefully at their production costs and undertake changes towards these.

This podcast will be an opportunity to understand a bit more about the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals and how the scheme could operate in the context of a real sheep farm. We’ll be focusing on the Universal Actions for benchmarking...

27th of September 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Silicate and carbonate reactions could offer a route for long-term carbon storage
• Whilst issues surround carbonate minerals, silicates, like basalt rock, appear more promising
• Applying crushed silicates to agricultural...

27/09/2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University

• The development of synthetic nitrogen (N) production allowed a boom in agricultural yields and population growth worldwide
• Whilst N is growth-limiting, it is regularly applied at levels where less than half is...

1 September 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Mycorrhiza can be added to systems physically via inoculation or encouraged from surrounding environments
• Inoculation strategies should be considered carefully given the ecosystem and climate in which they will...

22 August 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Symbiotic fungi mycorrhiza have important interactions with many plant species
• Mycorrhiza, in optimal conditions, can improve plant growth with fewer inputs, improve soils and protect from weeds, insects, contamination...

2 August 2022

Louis Gray, University of the West of England & Dr William Stiles, Aberystwyth University.

Take home messages:

• Increasing levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere are expected to change the nutritional composition of plants, and...

Below is the 40th 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...

8 July 2022

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

• Biodiversity contributes unseen benefits  and is essential for a sustainable future
• Traditional biodiversity evaluation is time consuming, costly and difficult to scale up
• Technologies could help to collate and...

This dashboard outlines land key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2021 - March 2022.