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Duchy College Rural Business School is at the cutting edge of positive development in rural industry
An organisation that combines education, training, business support and applied research for rural industries.

Latest Projects

Future Farm

2 Minute Farmer (2MF)

Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB)

Precision Management of Dairy Cow Bolus Project

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Challenge of Rural Leadership

The future for Rural Industries has never been more challenging
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Rural Business Research

The largest specialist group of its kind in the UK
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Applied Research

Working with farmers to deliver solutions
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The Rural Business School prides itself on being able to deliver a programme of research and technology transfer capacity in the land based sector.
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Latest News & Events

BVD Stamp It Out Project

Duchy College’s Rural Business School (RBS) has helped to sign up just over 2,000 farmers on to the BVD Stamp It Out Project. This is a massive 74% of the overall SW target, with lots more work projected to happen over the winter months. These farmers are spread over 37 different vet practices, with another…

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New Soils Project with the Tamar Valley AONB

The Tamar Valley AONB, together with the National Association of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (NAAONB), has been successful in securing funding to conduct tests and trials to help shape the development of agricultural policy and payments to farmers. The future of the Basic Farm Payment and Agri-environment schemes will be replaced with the Environment…

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Farm safety top of agenda for young farmers

In a bid to help tackle the number of accidents that take place on farms, agricultural colleges in the region are continuing to highlight the critical issue among students. The number of fatal accidents on farms is refusing to drop, with 167 people killed in the last five years, according to the Health and Safety…

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“The training allowed me to make more money through sheep shearing. It also meant that the sheep get a better cut, with fewer scratches from the clippers. Since I have been shearing the availability of the training course have meant that more local people are staying in the industry.”
Andrew Pennington
"The great thing about the Healthy Livestock initiative is that it enables our practice to perform preventative medicine on BVD, Mastitis, Johne's, and Lameness in greater depth. Some might find it quite prescriptive, but it guarantees a comprehensive approach to all our farmers."
Peter Plate - Damory Vets, Blandford