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
As the UK agricultural supply industry's leading trade association, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) represents businesses in key sectors within the supply chains that feed the nation.
Its Member businesses supply UK farmers and growers with the animal feed, fertiliser, seed, crop protection products, trusted advice and quality services that are essential to producing food, as well as trading crops and commodities across the globe.
Formed in October 2003 by a merger of three trade associations, today AIC has over 230 Members in the agri-supply trade and represents £17.8 billion* turnover at farmgate.
AIC works on behalf of its Members by lobbying policymakers and stakeholders, delivering information, providing trade assurance schemes, and offering technical support.
AIC Services manages a range of services, including Trade Assurance Schemes and professional registers recognised by the UK Government as essential means to underpin feed and 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)
*According to a 2023 survey of AIC Members.
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