Can Chicory hold key to higher lamb DLWG at Denbighshire sheep farm? - 18/12/2020
Non Williams our technical officer and Hugh Jones, Pentre Farm a Farming Connect Demonstration Sites reflects on the outcomes from the first year project.
Air pollution: Reducing ammonia emissions by adapting livestock management approaches
17 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Ammonia is a key contributor to air pollution levels, as it can become particulate matter after combination with other pollutant materials from a range of sources...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Can precision technologies help?
17 December 2020
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Antimicrobial resistance is a major concern across human and animal health
- Moving away from blanket antimicrobial treatments is having positive effects on AMR but more focus is needed on...
Air pollution: The role of agriculture in Wales
16 December 2020
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Current levels of air pollution present a major health risk.
- Ammonia emitted as a result of agricultural activities can contribute to particulate matter formation (a key...
Home-rearing bull beef on ad-lib concentrates and straw has worked out marginally cheaper for a Welsh suckler enterprise than out-sourcing the job to a finishing unit.
9 December 2020
The Griffith family run a herd of 145 Stabiliser cows at Bodwi, near Pwllheli, and had historically finished half their bull beef animals themselves and the others at a specialist unit in Yorkshire.
As a...
Ewe lambs can eat 3% of liveweight per day on well managed Fodder beet
9 December 2020
Ewe lambs and yearlings can eat more than three per cent of their liveweight a day grazing fodder beet but the crop must have good leaf cover and be correctly allocated to achieve this intake for...
Optimising resting time is key to increasing dairy cow longevity
3 December 2020
Increasing resting time by five hours in every 24 can help cows stay in the herd for two additional lactations.
According to Dutch vet and cow behaviour expert Joep Driessen, the modern dairy cow doesn’t get...
Welsh Pasture Project beef farm extends its grazing season by two and a half months with better grassland management
3 December 2020
A family farm rearing beef heifers on marginal land in South Wales has shortened its winter by two and a half months since improving grassland management.
The John family buy 80 Limousin heifer calves a year...