CREAM Articles in the Press

Greenmount CREAM Students Making Progress
Andrew Fyffe (HND 2009), Omagh, graduated from CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus in May 2009 with a Higher National Diploma in Agriculture...

CREAM Herd Update
Students hosted the second of their biannual Advisory Board meetings earlier this month ...

Greenmount CREAM students welcome parents and friends
CREAM, one of several student-led enterprise management projects, at CAFREs Greenmount Campus ...

Northern Bank Managers see the CREAM at Greenmount
The quarterly meeting of Northern Bank’s agricultural team took place last week when thirty Agribusiness Managers and Advisors visited CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus ...

CREAM students follow the supply chain
CAFRE programmes aim to produce applied and practical graduates ...

Ice-Cream to tickle the taste buds of CREAM students!
CAFRE programmes aim to produce applied and practical graduates ...

CREAM cows winter clip!!
As the winter draws in and the CREAM cows are now fully housed one of our first jobs as CREAM students was to commence the winter clip for the CREAM herd ...

CREAM rises to the top (PDF 743 KB)
Northern Ireland’s Greenmount College is home to the innovative CREAM project, where students take on the management ...

Greenmount CREAM students update Advisory Board
CREAM, one of several student-led enterprise management projects, at CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus provides Higher National Diploma Agriculture and Agricultural Technology Degree students with the unique opportunity to manage a high genetic merit Holstein herd ...

CAFREs CREAM students on tour
CAFRE higher education programmes produce agricultural graduates with both theoretical and practical skills ...

Out of parlour feeders update
The main aim of installing the out of parlour feeders (OOPF) was to reduce concentrate wastage by improving the efficiency of the concentrate fed ...

CREAM students achieve consistantly low bactocounts
Since the introduction of the new Bactoscan method of hygienic quality analysis, C.R.E.A.M. has been achieving consistently low readings with an average of 10,000 cells per ml ...

CREAM Screens
Recently within the student led CREAM project at Greenmount Campus CAFRE, the students organised the screen testing of all cows with persistently high somatic cell counts ...

CREAM students combat mastitis
As the C.R.E.A.M. herd comprises 30 high genetic merit cows, yielding an average of 45 litres per day, mastitis can be a problem ...

CREAM students update advisory board
CREAM, Greenmount Campus’ (CAFRE) student led project provides Higher National Diploma Agriculture and Agricultural Technology Degree students with the unique opportunity to manage a high genetic merit Holstein herd ...

CREAM wins challenge cup, again!!!
During October 2005 the CREAM herd was awarded the "John Thompson and Sons Perpetual Challenge Cup" ...

From the hills of Donegal to the land down under
At present I am commencing the final year of the Higher National Diploma in Agriculture at the Greenmount Campus of CAFRE ...

Classy CREAM
The CREAM herd at CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus was recently classified with some very pleasing results for the students and staff involved ...

Classification results
CREAM October 2005 classification results ...

Minister learns about the Greenmount CREAM Herd
Agriculture Minister Jeff Rooker has visited Greenmount College to learn about a student led Enterprise Management project at CAFRE’s Greenmount Campus ...

Three generations in the CREAM herd
Recent Holstein UK classification of the CREAM herd at Greenmount Campus ...

CREAM celebrate a decade of success
For the last decade CREAM (Co-operative for Real Education in Agricultural Management) has been a unique and exciting educational experience ...