Food production and processing: GCSE Agriculture and Land-Use Support Workshop
03 Mar 2026
Loughry Campus
Explore the food production and processing techniques at Loughry Campus, Cookstown.
Book your students to attend this one-day practical workshop to explore meat preservation and packaging techniques in the Food Industry
– Tuesday 3rd March 2026
This programme will develop your pupils’ understanding of food processing, preservation and packaging through practical examples using in the Food Technology Centre at CAFRE.
Key areas that will be covered are:
– Stages of meat processing from farm to supermarket shelf
– Meat slaughtering, processing and quality control,
– Methods used to preserve meats including drying, vacuum packing and curing
When booking places, tickets must be requested for each pupil attending, not one ticket per school booking.
Registration: 9.45am
Workshop starts: 10.00am
Workshop finishes: 2.00pm
Pupils may bring their own snacks and lunch or purchase food from the outlets on campus.
For further information email: CAFRErecruitment@daera-ni.gov.uk