New Game Feed training course from AIC
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has launched a new training course to improve gamebird feeding, nutrition, health and welfare, and sustainability.
The Feed Adviser Register (FAR) Game Feed Module level one will help feed producers and advisers to increase their knowledge of gamebird nutrition and welfare, and support improved sustainability practices in game rearing and keeping.
The course is also suitable for gamebird breeders, rearers, and keepers, landowners, shoot owners, and game meat buyers, who want to better understand the impact that gamebird feed has on management practices, biosecurity and hygiene, meat quality, and sustainability targets.
David Moss, Technical Manager at AIC explains that the new FAR Game Feed Module provides the game feed sector with much-needed entry level learning. He says, “With game meat growing in popularity with consumers it’s essential that game feed advisers are equipped with a basic understanding of how a well-planned diet leads to healthy gamebirds, whilst continuing to be conscious of reducing the environmental footprint of gamebird rearing and breeding.”
Liam Stokes, CEO of British Game Assurance, supports the development of the new module, saying, “This course is a significant step in driving forward a sustainable, 21st century game sector to support the flourishing demand for great British game meat."
Nick Major, Corporate Affairs Director at ForFarmers, and Chair of AIC’s Feed Executive Committee says, “The FAR Game Feed module recognises the value of advice into the sector which is such an important part of the rural economy and increasingly, the food chain. I hope it will play its part in encouraging more retailers to promote game to consumers, knowing that the sector is now underpinned by quality assurance”.
The FAR Game Feed Module, level 1, covers nutrition, gamebird production systems, feed management, biosecurity, hygiene, health and welfare, key performance indicators, and sustainability.
The module can be completed in participants’ own time, at their own pace, with online assessment. Successful participants will receive a certificate of completion.
The module is available free of charge to all FAR Members, while non-members can join FAR as an Associate Member for an annual fee of £75 plus VAT, before taking the module. Future game feed modules are planned.
To find out more about the Feed Adviser Register (FAR) Game Feed Module level one contact David Moss at AIC [email protected] or call 07585 323943.
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About AIC
AIC is the UK trade association representing the agricultural supply chain sectors of Animal Feed, Arable Marketing, Crop Protection & Agronomy, Fertiliser and Seed, since its inception in 2003.
In all, AIC represents Members responsible for some £17.8 billion of farm trade. A significant part of its work is political lobbying and influencing, as well as supporting Members with technical information.
AIC Services, which is the professional services arm of AIC manages a range of services, including Assurance Schemes and professional registers recognised by the UK Government as essential tools to underpin feed & food safety alongside fertiliser security.
These schemes and professional registers include:
- Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops (TASCC)
- Feed Materials Assurance Scheme (FEMAS)
- Universal Feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS)
- European Seed Treatment Assurance (ESTA)
- Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme (FIAS)
- Feed Adviser Register (FAR)
- Renewable Energy Directive (RED)
- Forage Assurance Scheme (FAA)
- AIC Services Palm Oil Credit Scheme (APOCS)
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