22 October 2008

Students taking the CROPS option are closely involved in a number of student learning projects on the Campus farms throughout the year, to learn basic crop husbandry skills and introduce them to new technology that is being used by arable farmers in Northern Ireland and throughout the arable world

One of the student learning projects involves students sowing and managing a field of winter wheat carrying out all the necessary fieldwork and using Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology where appropriate.

Students on the CROPS option ploughing a field for winter wheat in late September.