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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7805152" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Nobody goes to Aberystwyth University to learn how to farm. Or they might do but won't. It's been a total shambles in my opinion for several decades. Aspiring farmers went to the Welsh Agricultural College at Llanbadarn Fawr, just a couple of miles away, which had its own few farms and was generally well run and its courses were more than worthwhile. Then farming went out of fashion a bit and numbers dropped I believe, and the University was left horses from Llanarth Stud of Welsh Cobs, so they started an equine course there, which didn't last long and they soon cashed in the stud farm legacy. Then they started 'countryside management' courses and the hippies took over, which was the end of it. The college building is still there but all the accommodation blocks, built new in the 1970's, have long been demolished. The College of Librarianship is still there but not sure whether it is now just a Further Ed college, and the library attached to that is now mainly a Covid vaccination centre.</p><p></p><p>Trawscoed was one of the network of Experimental Husbandry Farms dotted around the UK after the War years when agriculture productivity was important to everyone and farmers were respected. It's all gone to hell in a handbasket since the late 1980's. I mean the whole job and the relevance of farmers in the UK generally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7805152, member: 718"] Nobody goes to Aberystwyth University to learn how to farm. Or they might do but won't. It's been a total shambles in my opinion for several decades. Aspiring farmers went to the Welsh Agricultural College at Llanbadarn Fawr, just a couple of miles away, which had its own few farms and was generally well run and its courses were more than worthwhile. Then farming went out of fashion a bit and numbers dropped I believe, and the University was left horses from Llanarth Stud of Welsh Cobs, so they started an equine course there, which didn't last long and they soon cashed in the stud farm legacy. Then they started 'countryside management' courses and the hippies took over, which was the end of it. The college building is still there but all the accommodation blocks, built new in the 1970's, have long been demolished. The College of Librarianship is still there but not sure whether it is now just a Further Ed college, and the library attached to that is now mainly a Covid vaccination centre. Trawscoed was one of the network of Experimental Husbandry Farms dotted around the UK after the War years when agriculture productivity was important to everyone and farmers were respected. It's all gone to hell in a handbasket since the late 1980's. I mean the whole job and the relevance of farmers in the UK generally. [/QUOTE]
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