Wednesday
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - in the absence of our lecturer we did a hypothetical supermarket veg shop advising what we would buy and how we would buy it! We then watch one of the 2013 harvest videos, focusing on the potato harvest.
Farm Habitat Management - we carried on with the time line of agricultural development through the different ages from the romans to the present day - 20th century farming.
Farm related activity - herded the sheep in and prepped them for tupping (removed dags) put raddles on the rams and turned out. Herded in some of the Lincoln red cattle for weighing and turned back out again.
Thursday
Business Management - an introduction to UK agriculture, its role economically and where it fits in globally. rather surprisingly the UK is approx. 72% self sufficient! but agriculture only contributes to 0.7% of the total GDP (gross domestic product).
Business Planning - a look at a performance indicators within a business and how these are affected and what you can do to alter them.
Estate Skills - following an introduction to bricklaying, we had a go at laying an english garden wall bond wall today! first we mixed a lime and cement mortar mix, on a board adding splashes of water to ensure it didn't go 'too far' then had a go at laying (much harder than it looks).
Friday
Beef Husbandry - a more in-depth look at cereal beef production and a 4 day old calf scenario.
Learner Support - changed to tutorial with dom
Investigative Project - worked on assignment work
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