Wednesday
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - tomatoes, their origin, commercial production, growing, water requirements, nutrition, defects and disease and the market.
Farm Habitat Management - CAP reforms - what the latest proposals are for a CAP reform including the three crop rule, compulsory 'greening' and payment structure.
Farm related activity - Presentation day - in pairs (if our partners were at college) we presented to the class our grain project.
Thursday
Business Management & Business Planning - personal study day
Estate Skills - personal study day
Friday
Beef Husbandry - Feed for beef cattle - a look at forage, concentrates, succulents, liquids and micronutrients.
Learner Support - Today was about the semi-colon and the comma!
Combinable Crops - Winter wheat, about, planting, harvesting and looking for disease.
Investigative Project - continued to work on task one!
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Friday, 14 November 2014
12,13,14 November 2014
Wednesday
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - the carrot! its history, its family and relations, planting, harvesting and storage.
Farm Habitat Management - a look into the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), when and why it started, the advantages, the disadvantages and what it means for todays farmers.
Farm related activity - presentation preparation and library research work.
Thursday
Business Management & Business Planning - personal study day
Estate Skills - personal study day
Friday
Beef Husbandry - an introduction to rationing suckler cows and calves, how food is calculated for energy which is utilised for maintenance and growth, or lost as heat, methane, faecal and urinary energy
Learner Support - referencing
Combinable Crops - how to identify cereal crops including wheat, barley and oats as well as some grass species such as blackgrass and ryegrass
Investigative Project - research work continues..
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - the carrot! its history, its family and relations, planting, harvesting and storage.
Farm Habitat Management - a look into the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), when and why it started, the advantages, the disadvantages and what it means for todays farmers.
Farm related activity - presentation preparation and library research work.
Thursday
Business Management & Business Planning - personal study day
Estate Skills - personal study day
Friday
Beef Husbandry - an introduction to rationing suckler cows and calves, how food is calculated for energy which is utilised for maintenance and growth, or lost as heat, methane, faecal and urinary energy
Learner Support - referencing
Combinable Crops - how to identify cereal crops including wheat, barley and oats as well as some grass species such as blackgrass and ryegrass
Investigative Project - research work continues..
Monday, 10 November 2014
5,6,7 November 2014
Wednesday
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - the humble potato! we learnt about the history, the plant, planting, harvesting, fertilising, irrigation and the market
Farm Habitat Management - the Agricultural Act 1947 - promising farmers an assured market and guaranteed prices for their produce!
Farm related activity - site visit to phoenix speciality oils - manufacturers of cold pressed rape seed oils, incorporating the borderfields brand (really interesting trip)
Thursday
Business Management & Business Planning - changed to combinable crops. in our first session we worked on our grain presentations (Barley to Beer for me). We then looked at seed certification.
Estate Skills - changed to library work (for me as it was an assessment and my partner was not in)
Friday
Beef Husbandry - we continued to look at the cereal beef platform, looking at the Fat Class and confirmation grading and the feeding and rationing requirements from 5 weeks onwards.
Learner Support - employability seminar
Combinable Crops - changed to business - we carried out a swot analysis following our visit to woodborough farm
Investigative Project - changed to business - in this session we investigated the various farm assurance schemes including red tractor, organic farmers & growers and leaf - linking environment and food.
Root Crop & Field Veg Production - the humble potato! we learnt about the history, the plant, planting, harvesting, fertilising, irrigation and the market
Farm Habitat Management - the Agricultural Act 1947 - promising farmers an assured market and guaranteed prices for their produce!
Farm related activity - site visit to phoenix speciality oils - manufacturers of cold pressed rape seed oils, incorporating the borderfields brand (really interesting trip)
Thursday
Business Management & Business Planning - changed to combinable crops. in our first session we worked on our grain presentations (Barley to Beer for me). We then looked at seed certification.
Estate Skills - changed to library work (for me as it was an assessment and my partner was not in)
Friday
Beef Husbandry - we continued to look at the cereal beef platform, looking at the Fat Class and confirmation grading and the feeding and rationing requirements from 5 weeks onwards.
Learner Support - employability seminar
Combinable Crops - changed to business - we carried out a swot analysis following our visit to woodborough farm
Investigative Project - changed to business - in this session we investigated the various farm assurance schemes including red tractor, organic farmers & growers and leaf - linking environment and food.
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