Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

Maximising liveweight gain off grass: We sell our beef cattle as stores but following changes to the business we plan to finish cattle next...

Project aims:

• The project aims to increase awareness of Mycoplasma Bovis as a disease which causes four main diseases in cattle; pneumonia, middle ear infections, mastitis and arthritis in any age of...

Keeping your pigs healthy, happy and productive depends on smallholders as well as farmers with larger pig units, following several straightforward measures. Implementing good biosecurity practices will help to prevent disease occurring - prevention is always better than cure.

Reducing...

This module will cover key practices involved in the early management of lambs to support their health, welfare, and productivity. It will cover techniques for fostering orphaned or rejected lambs, as well as the correct procedures for docking and castration—essential...

This module explains the steps that commercial sheep producers should take when establishing a sheep breeding programme for their flock. It explains how to identify traits of importance for future breeding strategies and reminds them of the importance of capitalising...

Project aims: 

• This project will focus on disease prevention in calves and youngstock, looking at best practice and management tools to reduce respiratory diseases.
• The project will...

Calf scour (diarrhoea) is the most common disease in pre-weaned calves, accounting for 50% of deaths. 

Scour can result in high economic losses, but can be controlled and prevented. 

Scour rates are often underestimated on farms, with up to 80%...

Bluetongue has recently (September 2024) entered the UK via midges blown over the English Channel. In this course we introduce Bluetongue and cover clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control.

African Swine Fever (ASF) is widely regarded as one of the most serious and damaging diseases affecting pigs. It is caused by an Arborvirus and has at least 22 distinct genotypes; pathogenesis varies between these genotypes. The virus is completely...

This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between October - December 2023