Skills and Training

Healthy, fertile rams are the foundation of a productive flock. This module provides guidance on assessing, maintaining, and improving ram health to optimise breeding performance. 

Looking at ways to provide upland farmers with an alternative source of income from land that is otherwise limited in its farming options.

Many new builds are constrained by a narrow set of design factors or where the design process is driven by the building supplier, on a cost basis. But there are many other important factors to consider.

The simple dictionary definition of compost is as follows: a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land. Compost consists largely of decayed carbon-based matter like fruits, vegetables, manure, grasses, dead leaves...

Water is essential to agriculture production. In addition water is managed to supplement production with its uses comprising irrigation, spraying, drinking for livestock, and washing (vegetables, livestock buildings). In the UK water for agriculture is obtained either directly from rain...

The term orchard refers to a plantation of trees designed to produce crops of fruits and nuts. As they are often in place for 15 years or more, careful planning pre-planting will give the best results. The most commonly grown...

Are you eager to learn and to adopt the most up to date lameness management techniques to improve cow wellbeing, performance and increase profitability?

Join us at a unique 2 day event during which we will;

• Develop an in-depth...