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Practical Guide: Improving Shed Ventilation for the Dairy Herd
This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of housed cattle by improving ventilation in buildings.
Read More >Practical Guide: Improving Dairy Feed and Water Intakes
This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of housed dairy cattle by improving feed and water intakes.
Read More >Practical Guide: What can your Dairy Cows Tell You?
This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of cattle by improving their environment.
Read More >Practical Guide: Improving Shed Ventilation for the Beef Herd
This practical guide looks at maximising performance of housed beef cattle by improving ventilation in buildings.
Read More >Practical Guide: Solar Photovoltaics
This Practical Guide concentrates on the opportunities for producing electricity from solar photovoltaics (PV) on farm, which could help to provide an additional income and reduce farm GHG emissions.
Read More >Practical Guide: Wind energy
This Practical Guide concentrates on how to develop a medium scale wind turbine and help reduce GHG emissions. (Note: other scales of development may be appropriate at your site. The basic principles still apply.)
Read More >Practical Guide: The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
This Practical Guide explains the Renewable Heat Incentive.
Read More >Practical Guide: Micro-Hydro
This Practical Guide concentrates on micro-hydro opportunities. Installing micro-hydro could reduce electricity bills, provide an additional income, and reduce GHG emissions from the farm.
Read More >Practical Guide: Introduction to Small Scale Renewables
This Practical Guide gives an overview of small farm scale renewable systems
Read More >Practical Guide: Feed-in Tariff
This Practical Guide focuses on the Feed in Tariff Scheme to fund renewable resources on farm, which can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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