Pests and diseases can be a big problem in horticulture. Anything that is damaging your crops, or impacting the nutrients or light available, can impact your levels of production and ultimately your yields and profits. Understanding how to recognise certain...
Horticulturists typically grow crops in a greenhouse or polytunnel, where the following factors can be regulated:
When controlled to an optimal level, these conditions maximise the plant yield per unit of energy consumed...
This module describes the maintenance of ewe nutrition and the diagnosis of common metabolic diseases using body condition scoring (BCS).
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.
This course will give an overview of the use of circular economy techniques in Welsh land management towards improving sustainability, resource efficiency, environmental impacts and long term economics of the industry.
Around 35 million home and business owners across the UK receive either a gas or electricity bill every month. In many cases the energy bills that we receive every month is amongst the largest of our bills but how well...
This module describes the presentation, prevention and treatment of Johne’s Disease and other wasting diseases in sheep.
Understand the basics of how to care for and manage bees, for honey production.
Border Disease (BD) is classed as one of the “iceberg diseases” of sheep, it is a viral infection that affects sheep worldwide. In this module you will learn about clinical signs and treatment, prevention and control of the disease.
