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Farming Connect’s face-to-face training is underway again. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, although it’s not quite ‘training as usual’ as yet for Farming Connect, face-to-face training courses are now available provided all the current pandemic guidelines are adhered to. Where feasible, a range of methods will continue to be incorporated into the usual training delivery, in order to minimise face-to-face contact. The next skills application window opened on Monday, May 3, and runs until 5pm on Friday, June 25. Kevin Thomas, director of Lantra Wales, is expecting take-up levels...

Farmer to finish lambs on herbal leys after seeing benefits 4 May 2021 | The farm will use multi species leys and rotational grazing to boost feed efficiency and cut inputs The rooting depths of clovers and herbal leys will help one Welsh beef and sheep farm reduce its nutrient run-off. Tom Jones, who farms near Colwyn Bay, is aiming to use multi species leys and rotational grazing to improve feed efficiency and reduce inputs. A project by Welsh government-funded Farming Connect on grazing systems on other Welsh farms made him aware of the wider benefits of herbal leys. Not only can they inc...

Trial reveals wormer resistance on 98% of sheep farms >More in © Tim Scrivener A project in Wales has detected resistance to one or more wormer groups on 98% of participating farms. The initiative, which was fully funded through the Farming Connect Advisory Service, used a flock faecal egg count reduction test to establish whether resistance to anthelmintic drenches existed. Testing was carried out last year between June and November on 49 sheep farms. About the trial Sampling packs were provided by parasite management company Techion...

Wormer resistance detected in 98% of participating farms 28 April 2021 | The farms which took part in the project identified wormer resistance in the early stages A project in Wales has detected resistance to one or more wormer groups on 98% of participating farms. The initiative, funded by Welsh government, used a flock faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) to establish whether resistance exists to anthelmintic drenches. Last year, 49 sheep farms used the service, with testing carried out between June and November. Sampling packs were provided by parasite management firm Techion and faeca...

Natural regeneration replaces harvested trees on Welsh farm 27 April 2021 | The farmer generates an income by selling wood as fuel while improving the woodland’s environmental benefits A Welsh sheep farmer is harvesting wood to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees. Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare woodland at Plas yn Iâl, a 75 hectare farm near Llandegla in Denbighshire. The woodland, part of a CADW Registered Historic Woodland and Parkland, has been unmanaged for 65 years. Mr Beech is working with the industry's ...