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Ammonia levels have been cut by 75% and antibiotics use reduced to zero after a high-tech sensor system was installed at Wern Farm in Powys. Damp air

“Violent and confrontational” off-roaders drive Ceiriog Valley farmers to despair Violent and abusive off-roaders have pushed farmers in the Berwyn mountains to appeal for help from their elected representatives. Farmers in the Ceiriog Valley have met with Plaid Cymru’s North Wales MS to make their case for an action plan to prevent off-roaders, who “often turn up in gangs with uninsured and untaxed vehicles, from using green lanes into the Berwyn range”. They met on the Wayfarers track going from Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog over to Llandrillo near Corwen, an old drovers’ track that...

How rumen boluses can help manage suckler cow fertility >More in © Debbie James A Welsh beef farm has lifted the rate of conception at first service in its heifers by 10% since using bolus technology to aid heat detection. Rumen boluses are more usually associated with heat detection in dairy herds, but Farming Connect demonstration farmers Llion and Siân Jones are monitoring their performance and relevance in a beef herd. The pair, who farm at Moelogan Fawr, near Llanrwst, Conwy, had previously synchronised maiden heifers for artifi...

An Anglesey sheep farmer hopes to capture health-conscious customers with the launch of flavoured Welsh ewe’s milk drinks. Huw Jones is among a growing number of Welsh farmers joining the burgeoning dairy sheep sector, and he has just launched his enterprise – Llaeth Medra Milk. Huw said: “There is a growing global market for sheep milk, especially with people looking into different types of milk alternatives. I’m particularly keen to target sports people and the health conscious. “Sheep milk is high in vitamins B6 and B12, also iron, zinc and essential amino acids. Also, it...

Australia-based IT company Canopy Tools' IoT software has been adopted for a rural development program in Wales. The Farming Connect initiative is...