CAFRE roll out Field Boundary Management workshops

28 January 2008
CAFRE, Greenmount Campus

The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), are currently delivering Field Boundary Management workshops for farmers throughout the Province. Topics covered include how to safeguard your Single Farm Payment and agri-environment scheme payments with regard to field boundaries.  In addition hedge management and restoration including hedge coppicing and laying are discussed and the workshop concludes with a demonstration of hedge planting.

If you would like further information or to book a place please contact Jonathan Doherty at Greenmount Campus, CAFRE on 028 9442 6728.

John Milligan (CAFRE part time instructor), discussing the management of a newly planted hedge with agri-environment scheme participants at Murtagh Walls’s farm at Hilltown, Co. Down.