Ancellor Yard Farm Education Centre
The University College has recently completed the construction of a new 400-cow dairy unit with a rotary parlour and associated demonstration facilities (for example, a viewing gallery above the parlour).
This is a major addition to the teaching and research facilities at Harper Adams, and builds upon other recent investments in our Pig Unit and Poultry Unit.
The location of the new dairy unit means that the centre of farming activities has moved to the west of the campus some distance away from the current teaching facilities. Our plan is to create a new Farm Education Centre to enable farm-based teaching to flourish in this new location at the new heart of the Farm's activities.
My degree is predominantly science based, but uses facilities from Harper Adams' College farm to back up the theory taught in lectures. The farm is an excellent resource available to students. I couldn't think of a better place to study a land based degree than a University College in the countryside!
James Neame
It is important that the facilities of the Farm keep pace with the need of the University College to raise awareness of farming issues and farming practice, and to assist in the reconnection of farming with the wider community and consumers. Harper Adams has a distinctive role to play in this work and in land-based higher education more generally and needs to demonstrate leadership in taking forward key policies at UK level such as the Food 2030 Strategy. The Farm Education Centre will be at the heart of this work.
