A programme of superior workshops for pig employees is returning after a four-year break to be able to handle the rising challenges and tasks within the pork trade.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Growth Board (AHDB) has redesigned its ‘Stockperson Plus’ syllabus to cowl matters like water administration, managing casualty pigs, and assurance schemes in additional element for the primary time, with all studying moved on-line.
The redeveloped programme helps cement AHDB’s function as one of many main organisations of such coaching and naturally follows on from the Stockperson Growth Scheme (SDS) to additional develop the technical abilities of pig unit employees.
The newer superior technical classes are aimed toward stockpeople who’ve good understanding already and/or have accomplished the SDS, and wish to progress to grow to be a supervisor or supervisor or simply get a deeper understanding of a specific manufacturing space they’re presently working in.
AHDB’s information trade relationship supervisor (east), Andrew Palmer, stated: “We’ve introduced the scheme again due to how shortly many employees within the trade are discovering themselves confronted with better tasks.
“Having spoken to stockpeople and their managers we’ve included just a few new matters together with choices for indoor and outside models.
“We used to supply face-to-face classes however have taken a number of the learnings from how we needed to adapt throughout Covid and determined to supply the course utterly on-line.
“That means it matches in to the workloads of these we’re aiming to draw from inside pig husbandry and can enable extra to attend.”
The coaching classes will start in late October and run by way of till March 2024.
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