EIP - The Welsh Farmland Bird Initiative - Matt Goodall, GWCT - 25/05/2021
Matt Goodall, GWCT, giving an introduction to the project.
Rotational grazing shown to increase soil organic matter on Welsh farm
24 May 2021
Early indications from a Farming Connect project have shown that intensive rotational grazing in sheep systems increases soil organic matter (SOM).
Pendre, a Farming Connect demonstration site at Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, near Aberystwyth, is aiming to...
Using a natural capital approach to value land management approaches
21 May 2021
Dr William Stiles: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Take home messages:
- Natural capital is the part of nature that delivers goods and services of value to human societies.
- Increasingly, the value of natural capital is being incorporated...
Sustainable agriculture: Meaningful metrics and motivations
20 May 2021
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Sustainable agriculture looks to maintain production whilst reducing detrimental outputs but can mean different things to different people
- For agriculture to be sustainable it must balance economic, social and...
Welsh farmers embark on carbon audits to inform emissions decisions
19 May 2021
A group of Welsh farmers are embarking on carbon audits to understand the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) they are producing and to inform an action plan to reduce emissions if needed.
The farmers are all...
Herbal leys helping suckler beef farm finish cattle at pasture
17 May 2021
Growing herbal leys is helping a Welsh suckler beef farm grow and finish cattle at pasture while reducing its nitrogen use.
Huw and Meinir Jones grow 6.5 hectares (ha) of a seed mix incorporating deep rooting...
Lucy Owens - Grow Your Own - 17/05/2021
2021 SMALLHOLDING AND COUNTRYSIDE FESTIVAL
Grow Your Own with LUCY OWENS
Episode 42 – Managing grass growth in a changing climate
With this April being one of the driest and coldest on record, grass yields on average are only half of what they would be normally on farms across Wales. In this episode, we discuss how farmers are coping with the...
WEBINAR: Reducing your farm's carbon footprint - how are others achieving it? - 13/05/2021
Join Farming Connect and guest speakers Prysor Williams Bangor University, and Liz Genever, independent beef and sheep specialist to learn more about carbon footprinting and how to reduce on-farm emissions by improving production efficiencies.
The webinar will also provide an...
