Skills and Training

This course will explain how to diagnose and treat the three types of disease caused by liver fluke – acute, sub-acute and chronic.  

This course will highlight the risks of working with farm animals, especially cattle. Explain flight or fight responses, and covers how to avoid them, utilising the principles of safe handling and other methods.

Food safety is vital for anyone producing it. Even at the small grower level you need to understand the legal implications and possible risk areas of food contamination and ensure they have all possible documentation to trace and track issues...

In Wales 53% of all field boundaries are hedgerows adding to rural distinctiveness. There is great diversity in Welsh hedgerows, from gorse hedges on coastal stone-faced banks, to the skilled laid hedges of inland areas. There is a rich cultural...

This module will remind farmers of the importance of existing public access rights and their responsibilities for maintaining it. It will also look at ways in which farmers can engage with the public and provide open farm access for them...

Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) is an important disease of cattle. BVD is a disease caused by a virus that produces immunosuppression and reproductive failure in cattle. This makes cases of pneumonia, diarrhoea and other diseases much worse in affected herds...

Understand the basics of how to care for and manage bees, for honey production.

In this course you will learn about border disease in sheep; how it is spread to the flock, what clinical signs you should look out for, and how to prevent transmission of the disease and treat it. 

This module introduces various topics that are essential for improving your soil fertility and increasing your yields. It will introduce you to understanding the basics of soil fertility, its components, measurement, and management practices. The module further introduces you to...

Diffuse pollution is pollution that enters the environment such as a watercourse in a way that cannot be clearly attributed to a single activity. This might be through multiple sources or a single source but entering a watercourse in multiple...