University Farm (Nottinghamshire)
- University Farm (Nottinghamshire)
University Farm is a 400 acre (1.6 km²) commercial research farm attached to the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham, England.
The farm exists to provide high quality facilities, resources and opportunities for research with crops and animals. It also has a key educational role by providing an environment for effective tuition of students in Biosciences, and Veterinary science. The farm is run commercially to be self-financing whilst still fulfilling its role as a teaching and research resource. The farm manager is currently William Donger. The farm is a mixed farm, with an emphasis on dairy and arable production.
The dairy herd consists of 180 cows, which are milked using a robot milking system (part of a recent 2 million-pound investment in the dairy). The farm also has 350 breeding ewes, and maintains beef, pig and poultry research units.
320 Hectares are devoted to arable crops including cereals, oilseed, and sugar beet, 20 Hectares of which have been converted to organic production. The further 80 hectares of land is used for an intensively managed rotation of grass, fodder crops and maize for silage.
External links
* [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/farm/ University Farm]
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