Foel Fawr farm runs a pedigree herd of 70 Hereford Cattle. It is a spring calving system where careful selection of replacement bulls is deemed essential for ease of calving and producing strong replacement...

Main Objectives

• Reduce the costs of bought in feed by maximising utilisation of home-grown feed stuff.
• Improve the flock rearing percentage through cost effective measures.
• Improve pasture quality during the growing season, to...

Overview:
This course will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to install post and strained wire fencing safely, protecting both you and those around you. 
This training course has been developed to help you understand how to install post...

Project objectives:

• Maximise dry matter output from productive areas of the hill farm through looking at grass and forage crop options, primarily...

Genetic improvement is a powerful tool for improving animal agriculture sustainability because the results are permanent and cumulative. Unlike nutritional and animal health interventions, which require continuous inputs, genetic improvements are made in one generation are passed onto the next...

Insufficient copper, cobalt and selenium in cattle is known to have a negative impact on performance, but this is often exacerbated by malnutrition, poor husbandry and ineffective parasite control. In this module, you will learn about the causes and effects...

Anaerobic Digestion, often abbreviated as “AD”, is a process for the production of biogas in a digester. It has become a mature and well understood technology; it already plays a significant role in the UK’s renewable energy strategy, with more...

This module aims to help you understand the options for creating temporary habitats, towards improving farm and Wales-wide sustainability and building biodiversity.

Many new builds are constrained by a narrow set of design factors or where the design process is driven by the building supplier, on a cost basis. But there are many other important factors to consider.