Feb
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund is part of the Farming Investment Fund. It offers grants for specific items of equipment to increase productivity, boost environmental sustainability and improve animal health and welfare. Farmers, foresters and growers in England, including contractors to these sectors, can apply for a grant between £1,000 and £25,000. Grants go […]
Jun
The Welsh Small Grant Efficiency Scheme is specifically aimed at supporting farmers to produce food in a sustainable way, whilst taking proactive action to respond to the climate emergency and to help reverse the decline in biodiversity. It focuses on providing capital funding to help farmers in Wales to improve the technical, financial and environmental […]
Jun
Today, our parent company, Datamars, announced the acquisition of Irish remote animal monitoring company, HerdInsights. With this strategic move, Datamars significantly accelerated its own research and product development work in the area of livestock performance monitoring; and enhanced its ability to deliver data-driven insights to livestock producers on productivity, animal wellbeing and sustainable resource use […]
There’s a new King of the paddock, with global leader in animal management, Datamars Livestock, launching a 46 Joule Pel electric fence energizer. The PEL 46000W Mains Energizer offers a powerful alternative to the PEL 836RS/R models, for farmers that want a great performing energizer with an intuitive interface. With Bluetooth and Wi-Fi compatibility, the […]
Jun
Arwel Jones is a third-generation farmer who helps run the family farm at Blaen Cwm, Cwmpenanner near Cerrigydrudion alongside his father, as well as doing some shepherding work on a nearby farm. Keeping a flock of cross Romney and Welsh for the past eleven or twelve years, they have also introduced the Innovis’ breed Aberfield […]
May
Datamars Livestock, featuring Pel Electric Fencing are running a weeklong series entitled Get Going with Grazing to help people who want to start doing rotational grazing to improve their grass quality, soil structure and grazing potential on their farm. Starting off using Electric Fencing to improve your grazing can be very simple. All you need […]
Nov
With the good grass growth conditions this year in stark contrast to the drought of last summer, many farmers have the issue of too much grass. So how do we utilise this and ensure good quality through the winter and reduce winter kill before next spring? The obvious solution is to bale excess grass – […]
Sep
Morgan Owen’s grandfather Iolo Owen, in the mid ’60s looked into an alternative breed of ewe to the Welsh Mountain he brought in from various sources, thus crossing the Wiltshire Horn with Nelson Welsh creating the Easy Care ewe. Having been successful, they have built up the flock to 2700 ewes- all of which are […]
Breeding Management
The job of tagging large numbers becomes half the task and saves valuable time and money.
May
Case Study: Brothers Abner and Danial Hughes, farm side by side at Brychyni in Llangybi and have been using the TagFaster system since 2013. In this time, they have seen the tags and applicator improve significantly and are very happy with the outcome of the improvements it has today! They tag the lambs around […]
Broader integrated animal management portfolio will offer expanded product choices for customers worldwide. Datamars, a leader in delivering intelligent tracking, identification and animal management solutions, has announced the completion of its acquisition of a major portion of the Tru-Test business after receiving New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office clearance earlier this month. The acquisition includes the […]
Jun
Builder Ally Baird admits to being a bit of a perfectionist and since he first got his eye on Zwartble sheep he has applied these principles to establishing his flock. Ally’s first introduction to farming was helping out with the flock run by his wife Moyra’s father near Dunblane in Perthshire. “I am a builder […]