Precision Agriculture - Pigs
This module highlights the advancements in technology and precision agriculture in the pig sector.
Post-Lambing Diseases in Ewes
Many post-lambing issues are related to nutrition, hygiene, and the ewe's body condition during pregnancy. Many post-lambing diseases are metabolic, but this module will cover metritis (uterine infection), mastitis (udder infection), and uterine prolapse.
Graig Olway
Russell Morgan
Llangeview, Usk
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
Foot health in a robotic milking system: we are interested in alternatives to footbathing; in a conventional milking system footbathing can easily be done...
Gwastadanas
Nant Gwynant, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
Focus Site Project: BVD testing and eradication
Project aims:
- Work that will be carried out will follow the newly formed Gwaredu BVD program. The ambition of the Gwaredu BVD project is to collect blood samples from...
Beef Herd Fertility
This module describes how to determine practical targets for the optimum fertility of beef cattle herds.
Hydatid Disease in Sheep
In this course you will learn about hydatid 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.
Pendre
Tom and Beth Evans
Pendre, Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
To maximise grass utilisation – through Farming Connect we have sampled soils in every field and they are all at...
Lan Farm
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthen
Focus site project: Improving suckler cow efficiency by optimising mature cow body weight
Project aims:
- To evaluate changes in cow mature weight and cow efficiency in terms of weight of calf weaned as a percentage of cow...
Controlling Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD)
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...