Skills and Training

This unit describes the safe storage, use and disposal of pesticides.

In this module you will learn about growing your own sources of protein for livestock feed, therefore reducing your reliance on imported protein. Protein is the single biggest cost for livestock feed. It is mostly imported and mixed into feed...

This course will give an overview of agricultural air pollution issues and will cover ways in which farming can be modified to reduce damaging emissions.

This course is an introduction to the importance to peatland management in their role as key habitats and in the benefits they provide farmers and the wider environment including through mitigating climate change.

This course will give an overview of the future direction of agriculture in Wales based on aims relating to sustainable farming and the Sustainable Land Management framework. It will aim to introduce the 5 core themes that make up the...

This course is an introduction to nutrient management planning on improved land and the elements included in a nutritional management plan. At the end of this module, you should be able to understand the importance of a nutrient management plan...

Farm businesses are facing tighter profit margins than ever before, with the costs of many inputs beginning to outstrip the value of products in certain systems. One way to address this is by exploring the reduction of inputs, to mitigate...

This module presents the advantages of different types of grass.

This module takes you through bracken as a habitat; when it has high nature value and when it doesn’t; control methods; and some uses for bracken and bracken-covered land. At the end of the module you should have a better...