Farm Nutrient Management
This module examines key factors in managing nutrients on your farmland to save money and improve the organic content of your soil. It is equally applicable to those within or outside a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ).
This module examines key factors in managing nutrients on your farmland to save money and improve the organic content of your soil. It is equally applicable to those within or outside a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ).
Schmallenberg virus is transmitted by biting midges and can infect and cause disease in sheep, cattle and goats. Learn how to recognise symptoms, what the risks are and how best to treat and control it.
Avian influenza (AI) or bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease of birds. It affects both wild and domestic birds and some strains are more pathogenic than others, resulting in a range of symptoms from very mild respiratory signs...
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...
This module explores the causes and prevention of abortion in ewes.
This unit describes the safe storage, use and disposal of pesticides.
This course will help you to analyse farm business diversification ideas and provide some tools for making informed decisions about implementing changes, whether you are new to diversification, or have an existing diversification project or business.
This short course will begin to explore depression within agriculture, what it is and how to help yourself come out the other side.
Agriculture has a significant environmental footprint. It is associated with approximately one third of global land use and is a key driver of land use change globally. Food production is also associated with ~15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. At...
This module examines the prevention, treatment and control of respiratory disease in cattle.