This course presents many different techniques and general measures which may be adopted in part or full, in order to move a farm toward greater sustainability, whether the concerns are commercial, environmental or something else. Improving sustainability is sometimes as simple as changing what is being farmed or how it is marketed; but it may also be a multi-faceted problem that requires major changes in farm management practices.
E-Learning Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 8 in-depth lessons:
- Introduction
- Soils
- Water
- Land care
- Financial Sustainability
- Broad Management Strategies
- Enterprise Selection & Management: Plants
- Enterprise Selection & Management: Animals
Course Aims
- Understand the broad possibilities for improving sustainability on farms.
- Understand how to avoid serious degradation of soils on a farm through sustainable management.
- Understand the broad possibilities for improving sustainability on farms.
- Understand how to avoid too serious degradation of soils on a farm through water management.
- Understand Economic Rules that apply to a farm Enterprise.
- Crop management techniques for sustainability.
- Minimising degradation through planning and management.
- Evaluate the financial viability and potential of animal enterprises.
How Does A Warnborough Online Course Work?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
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