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Practical Guides

On this page, we've gathered our practical guides across a wide range of areas helpful in running your farm.

Conservation & Biodiversity

Surveying Farmland Wading Birds – A Practical Guide

March 16, 2021

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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Practical Guide: Managing Peatlands and Upland Habitats

November 24, 2021
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Energy & Renewables

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

March 30, 2024

This Practical Guide concentrates on some of the opportunities that could come from carrying out a carbon footprint on the beef farm.

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Practical Guide: Comparing Grazing Methods

March 30, 2024

This Practical Guide is designed to improve understanding of different grazing strategies, their impacts for farm businesses and the environment.

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Practical Guide: Pre Lambing Management of Hoggs

March 30, 2024

This practical guide takes a closer look at the management of lambs during pregnancy to lambing.

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Practical Guide: Managing Bull Fertility

March 30, 2024

This practical guide takes a closer look at stock bull fertility checks to ensure performance.

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Practical Guide: Improving Dairy Cow Performance

March 30, 2024

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

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Practical Guide: Understanding Soil Carbon

March 30, 2024

This practical guide takes a closer look at Soil Carbon.

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Practical Guide: Beef Bull Selection

March 30, 2024

This practical guide looks at what you should consider when selecting a breeding bull for use within the beef herd

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Practical Guide: Managing Parasites in Beef Cattle – Lungworm

March 30, 2024

This Practical Guide highlights the need to manage internal parasites such as lungworm in cattle.

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Practical Guide: Managing Parasites in Beef Cattle – Roundworm

March 30, 2024
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Practical Guide: How do we Reduce Emissions from Dairy?

March 30, 2024

This practical guide suggests from ideas to improve efficiency and profitability, while reducing the carbon footprint of the dairy enterprise.

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Practical Guide: Managing Parasites in Beef Cattle – Liver Fluke

March 30, 2024

This Practical Guide highlights the need to manage internal parasites such as liver fluke in cattle.

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Practical Guide: How do we Reduce Emissions from Sheep?

March 30, 2024

This practical guide takes a closer look at flock productivity.

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Practical Guide: Improving Feed Conversion Efficiency and Reducing Waste in the Dairy Herd

March 30, 2024

This Practical Guide introduces some ideas that we can all consider to improve feeding efficiency and reduce waste from the dairy enterprise.

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Practical Guide: Dairy Heifer Rearing

April 16, 2024

This practical guide looks at rearing dairy heifers for optimum lifetime performance.

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Practical Guide: Nitrogen Fixation

April 16, 2024

his Practical Guide looks at how to optimise nitrogen fixation for more efficient plant growth and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Practical Guide: Making the Most of On-Site Generation

April 16, 2024

This Practical Guide looks at how demand management can reduce the need to import electricity from the grid.

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Practical Guide: Assessing Water Infiltration

April 16, 2024
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Practical Guide: Electricity Use in Dairy

April 16, 2024

This Practical Guide highlights how technology can improve energy use during milking and lead to improved farm efficiency.

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Practical Guide: Lameness in Sheep

April 18, 2024

This practical guide takes a closer look at lameness within the sheep flock

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Practical Guide: On-Farm Trials Guide

April 18, 2024

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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