Small Farms Workshop (Borders) – event summary
18 March 2017We held a series of meetings in the Borders to support small farms.
The materials (presentations and handouts) can be found below.
The topics covered included:
- Pre-lambing nutrition
- Condition scoring
- Importance of blood sampling
- Worm control
- Lambing tips
- Soil sampling and health
- Drainage
- Weed control
- Grassland nutrition
- Grassland management
Photos from the January event can be found on Facebook here.
- Borders Small Farms Major Nutrients powerpoint
- Topics: Crofts & Small Farms and Rural Business
- Biosecurity on sheep farms
- Topics: Livestock
- Info on Lime, Phosphate etc
- Topics: Soils
- Technical Note (TN617): Stockowner Biosecurity
- Stockowners need to consider the disease risks when visiting any facility when animals are kept. This technical note looks at how to be vigilant and control the risk of diseases within livestock.
- Topics: Livestock
- Technical Note (TN677): Treatment and Control of Liver Fluke in Sheep and Cattle
- The number of disease outbreaks due to the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica has increased in recent years with unprecedented numbers of sheep affected in 2012/13.
- Topics: Livestock
- Technical Note (TN643): Weed Management in Grassland
- This technical note describes the most important weeds of grassland and their management. It is designed to be of value to low and high conventional input grassland systems, as well as potentially to organic systems.
- Topics: Crops and Soils
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