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Why I chose a Modern Apprenticeship in Agriculture

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Shona Warwick

Andrew Campbell is 16 years old and lives on a farm in Whithorn, which is a 400 acre mixed farm, with 220 sucklers, 160 ewes including 40 pedigree Texels and...

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Forestry apprentices use cutting-edge technology

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Shona Warwick

Scotland’s Rural College is the first institute in the UK to have used cutting-edge technology to log students’ progression towards operating forest machinery. At the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week...

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MA Land-based Engineering: “I really contribute to all areas of the business”

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Mathew Howie currently works at J T Walkers Agricultural Engineering , completing his Modern Apprenticeship with SRUC in Land-Based Engineering (Agricultural Machinery). Mathew said “I was interested in tractors from...