Practical Guides
On this page, we've gathered our practical guides across a wide range of areas helpful in running your farm.
Crops & Soils
Conservation & Biodiversity
Surveying Farmland Wading Birds – A Practical Guide
Monitoring breeding waders on your farm enables you to track changes from year to year. This Practical Guide gives some guidance as to why and how to begin surveying farmland wading birds.
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Farming for a Better Climate Practical Guides
This is legacy content from Farming For A Better Climate
Practical Guide: Carbon Footprinting on the Beef Farm
This Practical Guide concentrates on some of the opportunities that could come from carrying out a carbon footprint on the beef farm.
DownloadPractical Guide: Comparing Grazing Methods
This Practical Guide is designed to improve understanding of different grazing strategies, their impacts for farm businesses and the environment.
DownloadPractical Guide: Pre Lambing Management of Hoggs
This practical guide takes a closer look at the management of lambs during pregnancy to lambing.
DownloadPractical Guide: Managing Bull Fertility
This practical guide takes a closer look at stock bull fertility checks to ensure performance.
DownloadPractical Guide: Improving Dairy Cow Performance
This practical guide looks at helping to maximise performance of cattle by improving their environment.
DownloadPractical Guide: Understanding Soil Carbon
This practical guide takes a closer look at Soil Carbon.
DownloadPractical Guide: Beef Bull Selection
This practical guide looks at what you should consider when selecting a breeding bull for use within the beef herd
DownloadPractical Guide: Managing Parasites in Beef Cattle – Lungworm
This Practical Guide highlights the need to manage internal parasites such as lungworm in cattle.
DownloadPractical Guide: How do we Reduce Emissions from Dairy?
This practical guide suggests from ideas to improve efficiency and profitability, while reducing the carbon footprint of the dairy enterprise.
DownloadPractical Guide: Managing Parasites in Beef Cattle – Liver Fluke
This Practical Guide highlights the need to manage internal parasites such as liver fluke in cattle.
DownloadPractical Guide: How do we Reduce Emissions from Sheep?
This practical guide takes a closer look at flock productivity.
DownloadPractical Guide: Improving Feed Conversion Efficiency and Reducing Waste in the Dairy Herd
This Practical Guide introduces some ideas that we can all consider to improve feeding efficiency and reduce waste from the dairy enterprise.
DownloadPractical Guide: Dairy Heifer Rearing
This practical guide looks at rearing dairy heifers for optimum lifetime performance.
DownloadPractical Guide: Nitrogen Fixation
his Practical Guide looks at how to optimise nitrogen fixation for more efficient plant growth and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
DownloadPractical Guide: Making the Most of On-Site Generation
This Practical Guide looks at how demand management can reduce the need to import electricity from the grid.
DownloadPractical Guide: Electricity Use in Dairy
This Practical Guide highlights how technology can improve energy use during milking and lead to improved farm efficiency.
DownloadPractical Guide: Lameness in Sheep
This practical guide takes a closer look at lameness within the sheep flock
DownloadPractical Guide: On-Farm Trials Guide
This Practical Guide designed to help you take a look at the impact of making changes to your fertiliser policy and soil management on your farm.
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