FARMING UPDATE – APRIL 2025

Whether you’re looking to improve business performance, explore diversification opportunities, strengthen succession plans or better understand your environmental responsibilities, Farming Connect provides Welsh farming businesses with access to valuable funded support. As a trusted agricultural consultancy, Ceres Rural is proud to deliver both fully funded one-to-one advice and subsidised consultancy services through the Farming Connect […]

Welcome to the Ceres Rural Farming Update, a publication that provides independent insights on agricultural issues, from policy and grant funding, to administrative updates and key market information. Read the update here. A ‘PLUS‘ version of this publication is now available to Ceres Research members, which takes a deeper dive into the key topics covered. […]

This season has delivered some of the strongest-looking oilseed rape (OSR) crops we’ve seen for a while, with strong autumn establishment, good spring growth, and plenty of ‘corner-to-corner’ flowering. A combination of kinder establishment conditions, leftover nitrogen residues, and more considered cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) husbandry has helped set crops up well. The key now is not to […]