CATTLE:

 

(a) Small Scale Dairying

(b) Suckler Cow Beef.

 

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HORTICULTURE:

(a) Outdoor vegetables

 

(b) Protected salads, vegetables and herbs

 

(c) Strawberries and other soft fruit, Top fruit

(d) Viticulture

(e) Olives for table and oil

 

(f) Nursery stock production.

 

Organic Smallholding and Livestock Husbandry Options

Modules 6 - 11

 

Students are able to select up to six full modules, or equivalent

 

Pigs

 

(a) Free range/outdoor pork and bacon production                 Full module   

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(b) Ham & Bacon Curing                                                         Full module   

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(c) Pedigree breeding                                                              Half module * 

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Sheep

 

(a) Lowland systems                                                               Full module

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(b) Upland systems                                                                  Full module

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Goats

 

(a) Milk and/or meat and/or fibre:   

     

(i) UK and Western Europe                                  Full module

 

(ii) Mediterranean Europe                                     Full module

 

(iii) Tropical, sub-tropical and other areas.           Full module

 

(b) Dairy products:

 

(i) UK and Western Europe                                  Half module *

 

(ii) Mediterranean Europe                                     Half module *

 

(iii) Tropical, sub-tropical and other areas           Half module *

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Cattle

 

(a) Small Scale Dairying                                      Full module

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(b) Dairy products                                                Half module *

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(c) Suckler Cow Beef                                          Full module

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(d) Calf rearing                                                     Full module

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Horticulture

 

(a) Outdoor vegetables                                            Full module

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(b) Protected vegetables, salads and herbs           Full module

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(c) Strawberries, other soft fruit, Top Fruit              Full module
 

(d) Viticulture                                                            Full module

(e) Olives for table and oil                                        Full module
 

(f) Hardy plants, herbaceous and nursery stock    Full module

 

Poultry

 

(a) Free range egg production                                 Full module

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(b) Free range chicken production                           Full module

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(c) Free range ducks and geese                              Full module

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(d) Free range turkeys                                              Full module

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(e) Guinea fowl, quail and other poultry                    Full module

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Bee keeping

 

(a) Bee keeping and honey production                     Full module

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(b) Mobile pollination services for the fruit growing industry     Full module

 

 

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The study of a full module from within the same group is essential

before taking these associated subjects

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