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.
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