The clinical signs of trace element deficiency in sheep are often insidious in onset and usually present as poorly grown lambs in late summer/early autumn.

Increasing concern about climate change has led to an increased need to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by agriculture. GHGs absorb solar radiation and in doing so, heat the atmosphere. The terms ‘carbon footprint’ and ‘carbon emissions’ are used...

Dairy farms typically carry out three major energy-intensive processes: milk harvesting, milk cooling, and cleaning. While the equipment used to perform these tasks will vary between farms, the fundamentals of energy transfer remain the same.

This module explains beef suckler cow feeding, monitoring of body condition score, consideration for different management systems and specific nutritional disorders.

Soils, if managed appropriately, can be a major carbon sink (removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere). While Welsh soils have rich and stable carbon stocks at present, there are a number of factors and challenges that may lead to...

This course gives an overview of the physiology of diarrhoea in young animals with focus on some specific environmental and infectious causes.

This module will focus on the various ways in which infectious diseases and pests can be introduced onto farms and spread, about various biosecurity measures to protect, prevent, mitigate and eradicate disease. We hope from this module you will extend...

In this course you will learn how to manage grazing land for optimal livestock performance.

Historically, the emergence of new technologies has continually changed and evolved farming practices, so that they have become increasingly more efficient, sustainable and profitable.

Today, due to significant pressures on the agricultural sector to increase food production, to be more...

This module explores the causes and prevention of abortion in cattle.