Farmers for the future
The Future of Farming Group will look at how to break down barriers currently preventing more talented, entrepreneurial young people from making careers in farming. Fewer young people are going into agriculture, while other related industries such as manufacturing are struggling to fill high-skilled posts in engineering and science. Unveiling the initiative at a National […]
Merlo UK training accredited to LTA 3 level
Merlo UK Ltd is delighted to announce that its Service Training courses have been accredited by the LTA, following an independent audit on behalf of the Landbased Technician Accreditation (LTA) scheme. The Landbased Technician Accreditation (LTA) scheme was launched in December 2007, to provide a readily recognisable industry benchmark for recognising and identifying the skill […]
Whitchurch School and CAT, ten years of partnership
Politicians meeting for the Earth Summit in Rio this week are struggling to find many achievements since their last big environmental summit ten years ago. But for the last ten years, teacher Colin Workman has been bringing students from Whitchurch High school in Cardiff to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth and he believes […]
Congratulations to graduating New Holland technicians
Twenty-three graduates will return to their New Holland dealerships with a BTEC National Diploma in Land-based Technology after completing their training at Reaseheath College in Cheshire. The specialist, semi-residential course is partly funded and run by New Holland, and involves an extra five modules specific to its range of tractors and harvesting machinery, such as […]
New farm safety campaign goes from strength to strength
Just over a year since the launch of the Partnership at the Grasslands and Muck event in May 2011, 25 organisations have now signed up to the Farm Safety Charter document. The work of the Partnership has also gained support from Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) and St John Ambulance. NFU head of policy […]
Minister announces £250M strategic investment in UK bioscience
The announcement will be made by the Minister during a visit to the Babraham Research Campus, near Cambridge, and highlighted again during a major speech at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has allocated £250M as the first phase of five year strategic investment programmes. This […]
Sowing the seeds for future demand
The five year strategy brings together the six AHDB divisions and a number of other organisations to provide a range of curricular activities to educate five to 16 year olds about food production and farming. This increased collaboration will deliver greater educational impact as well as better value for money for levy payers. Potato Council […]
National Trust’s groundbreaking MyFarm experiment to go free
The experiment – based at the Trust’s 1,450 acre Wimpole Home Farm in Cambridgeshire – was launched last May to encourage people to learn about day-to-day farm life and get a better understanding of where their food comes from. The virtual farmers are able to view day-to-day farm activities via blogs from the farm team, […]
Polaris means business
Polaris Britain is helping its ATV dealers to develop new sales skills through the Polaris Business School. It’s part of an EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) initiative which takes place across over twenty countries from Scandinavia to South Africa. Small, exclusive groups are gathered once a year in three regional meetings. The annual programme […]
