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Brand Partners

Role of Brand Partners

FECPAK brand partners provide system users with the best support and expertise available in two main areas: consultancy and science.

Consultancy - following the farmer purchase of the FECPAK system, the brand partner consultant in the area is notified and information regarding system training and support is forwarded to the farmer user. Brand partner institutes will regularly run block courses for system users. These courses will cover a wide range of parasite related issues facing the farmer. First point of contact for technical assistance for the farmer will be the brand partner consultant.

Science - Supporting the brand partner consultant will be the in house scientists based at a number of research facilities throughout the world. The scientists working in parasitology will also link to farmers using the system via their consultant network. This link will be used to tap valuable industry data on a wide range of on farm parasite management issues.

Partners

Signet Consultancy

Signet Farm Business Consultancy (Signet) is a scientifically based consultancy for livestock farmers both in Britain and abroad and is held to be authoritative, forward-looking and persuasive within the industry. It offers farm business consultancy services in England and Wales and delivers the MLC's Beef breeder and Sheep breeder breed improvement services throughout the whole of Britain.

Signet is a joint venture partnership between the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) and the Scottish Agricultural Colleges (SAC) formed in January 1995. As such, Signet is able to call upon both the meat industry expertise of MLC and the more broadly based rural industry research, technology, farm consultancy and extension expertise of SAC. Signet operates on a fully commercial basis and is funded entirely by fee income for services.

Signet employs 45 staff and has a gross annual turnover of approximately 2 million pounds. Signet is a BIAC affiliated organisation.

Scottish Agricultural College

The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) is a knowledge-based organisation, which supports the development of land-based industries and communities through its specialist research and development resources, its education and training provision and its expert advisory and consultancy services. Its work is wide ranging but there is a particular emphasis on agriculture and related sciences, rural business development and management, food chain quality and safety, and rural resource and environmental management. SAC carries out much of its work in partnership with government departments, levy boards, other academic and research organisations, and local authorities. It receives Grant-in aid in support of some of its activities from the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department.

SAC has approximately 930 staff and a turnover of 45 Million pounds.

Agricultural and Food Development Authority

Teagasc provides integrated research, advisory and training services for the agriculture and food industry in Ireland. Their research services are delivered by 200 scientists at eight dedicated centres covering food processing, dairying, beef, sheep, arable crops, horticulture, environmental protection, economics and rural development. They are a client-based organisation and operate in partnership with all sectors of the agriculture and food industry and with rural development agencies. They have developed close alliances with research, advisory and training agencies throughout the world and are continuously seeking to expand our international contacts.

They employ over 1,500 people at 120 locations throughout Ireland.

University of Wales

The University of Wales, Aberystwyth was founded in 1872 and is the oldest of the University colleges that form the federal University of Wales. Many of the University academic departments are at the frontiers of their subjects, making Aberystwyth one of the leading academic centres in Wales, housing not only the University but also the National Library of Wales, the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the United Theological College. The University currently employs approximately 1,600 staff. Aberystwyth University is also the base for the Welsh Sheep Strategy.

Welsh Sheep Strategy.

The Welsh Sheep Strategy unites breeders, researchers, college and university farms, commercial sponsors, and the expertise of MLC consultants. Its foundations were laid by a few people with the vision to realise that sheep farmers have to invest in flock improvement to ensure their products will sell in the future.

Many more have since joined the initiative and increased its momentum. Farmers can now see the results of the Strategy's success on farms and livestock sales in every part of Britain. The pioneers' determination is vindicated each time carcase specifications are tightened.