Virtual Innovation and Diversification week – 19/10/2020
14 October 2020
Farming Connect invites you to add value to your business, invest in your future, be part of the success story through a series of webinars:
20/10/2020, 11:00- Treehouses: Our diversification journey
Laura Lewis will be...
WEBINAR: What can Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) tools and techniques offer livestock farmers? - 12/10/2020
Performance recording and benchmarking are key for success in the livestock sector but what additional value can PLF offer?
This webinar introduces farmers and industry practitioners to the concept of PLF, and the challenges and opportunities that it brings.
A...
Nanotechnology and agriculture: Could smaller mean better?
12 October 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Nanotechnology is already playing roles in modern agriculture and could have further implementation in the future
- More research is needed to determine the environmental impacts of specific usage of...
Horticulture E-learning modules for SFS
Are you a horticultural business? Farming Connect can support you to complete UA4 (CPD) of the Sustainable Farming Scheme.
For horticulture farm businesses joining the SFS in 2026, the following e-learning modules completed from summer 2025 will count towards the...
Farming Connect’s Innovation and Diversification week
9 October 2020
With the combined uncertainty of Brexit and impacts of COVID-19, the need to encourage and release the dynamism of rural areas is now greater than ever.
Farming Connect is now seeking to nurture innovative ideas at...
Changing egg buying choices could cut ammonia levels in free-range systems
8 October 2020
Today on Clean Air Day a Farming Connect study has found that consumers can help egg producers reduce ammonia levels by switching their buying choices from extra-large brown eggs to white, slightly smaller eggs.
Farmer Llyr...
Part 1: Greenhouse gas emissions & environmental impacts of the poultry industry
8 October 2020
Dr Cate Williams: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- The poultry industry has seen huge growth and advancement in the past few decades, with the UK currently producing 1.7 million tonnes of chicken meat and 11.4 million eggs.
- Whilst...
Charcoal made from farm waste could help Welsh farmers lock up soil carbon
7 October 2020
An upland farmer who is producing a type of charcoal which locks up carbon in soil says agriculture in Wales could do more to convert farm and forestry waste materials into this resource.
Tony Davies removes...
Share farming opportunity for farmer who shares brothers’ farming philosophy
6 October 2020
Two brothers are aiming to build on the success they have achieved in their large-scale dairy farming business by providing an opportunity for a share farmer.
Alun and Paul Price run a herd of 800 Holstein...