Improving Soil Health
This module describes the use and implementation of no-till or min-till systems to improve soil health and lower costs of production.
This module describes the use and implementation of no-till or min-till systems to improve soil health and lower costs of production.
Respiratory disease is a major cause of loss to the UK sheep industry through mortality and poor health. This course covers four specific respiratory diseases - pasteurellosis, atypical pneumonia, parasitic bronchitis and lung abscesses.
Environment controls for poultry farms such as lighting, ventilation and temperature use energy, in this course we will cover, what energy is, what it costs and how to use it effectively.
This module explains how genetic selection can be used to breed sheep that are more resistant to internal parasite infections. It informs ram breeders how they can get involved in this work and explains to commercial ram buyers how they...
Understanding the biological and genetic basis of sheep breeding can help us make important management decisions about which breed to use and where it fits into the farm business.
This module highlights some of the measures which farmers can employ to reduce the potential for agricultural pollution.
Diagnosis of eye conditions in cattle is important in order to ensure the correct treatment is given. In this course we cover; Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK, “Pink eye”, New Forest Disease”), Bovine Iritis (“silage eye”) and Ocular Squamous Cell Carcinoma...
AI is a technique for impregnating females with the semen of superior quality bulls without the need for keeping a bull. It has been most widely used for breeding dairy cattle and has made bulls of high genetic merit available...
The simple dictionary definition of propagation is as follows: the act of producing a new plant from a parent plant.
Methods of propagating hardy nursery species (HNS) are often specific to the species or plant type and different plants are...
This module describes how to determine practical targets for the optimum fertility of beef cattle herds.