Practical Guides

This Practical Guide looks at benchmarks to assess flock efficiency. Additional guides in this series focus on maximising performance both pre and post lambing.

Livestock nutrition: A practical guide

This practical guide looks at the effects of climate change that should be considered when planning a new farm building.

This practical guide looks at adaption of traditional farm buildings to cope with climate change.

This Practical Guide focuses on anaerobic digestion and how it can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This Practical Guide focuses on the Feed in Tariff Scheme to fund renewable resources on farm, which can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This Practical Guide gives an overview of small farm scale renewable systems

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.

This Practical Guide explains the Renewable Heat Incentive.

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.)

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.

This practical guide looks at maximising performance of housed beef cattle by improving ventilation in buildings.

This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of cattle by improving their environment.

This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of housed dairy cattle by improving feed and water intakes.

This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of housed cattle by improving ventilation in buildings.

This Practical Guide looks at opportunities for locking up carbon in farm woodlands and benefits for the farm business.