Sustainable Farming – Mixed Farming
This module explains the benefits and challenges of incorporating mixed farming on your farm.
Counter Balance Lift Truck
Course duration dependent upon experience. Following completion of the course you will undertake an assessment and a certificate will be issued upon successful completion.
This training course has been developed to help you understand how to operate a counterbalance lift...
Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross Cutting
A 2 day training course with an independent assessment and certificate upon successful completion.
This course is ideal if you're working on farms, in woodland, or in conservation. You'll learn all the theory needed to use and keep a chainsaw...
Clawdd Offa Farm
Clawdd Offa Farm, Northop, Flintshire
Focus Site Project: Influence of Kappa Casein variations on total cheese production
Project Aim:
Investigate the potential in increasing total cheese yield through selecting for the Kappa Casein BB gene.
Introduction:
Past laboratory studies have...
Benefits of Planting Trees on Upland Farms
In this course you will learn about the environmental and production benefits of planting trees on upland farms. The module will draw upon a real-life multi-farm case study in which 5% of the farmland was planted with trees and will...
The Maintenance, History and Ecological Principles of Wildflower Meadows
Introduction
This one or two-day course enables learners within organisations that are creating and maintaining wildflower meadows to develop an understanding of their basic ecology and maximise the diversity inherent within a natural system.
Overview in brief
There is a...
Sustainable Farming -Lowering the Risk of Diffuse Pollution
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...
Planting and establishing Woodlands
This course is a 1 day training course. A certificate of training will be issued following completion.
This course is aimed at anyone employed in planting and establishing woodlands
The Lantra Planting and Establishing Woodlands course overs all aspects of...
Ty Draw
Ty Draw, Llanasa, Holywell, Flintshire
Focus Site Project: Quantifying the impact of technical advice: a review of the business performance following year-on-year management changes
Project objectives:
The aim of this project will be to review the changes made by quantifying...
Wern
Osian Williams
Wern, Y Foel, Welshpool, Powys
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
To build on the success we have had in controlling poultry red mites: we have trialled products to control infestations during...