Harper Adams University - Campus Tour Guide

16 17 SouthCampusWalk On FFCTB’s front lawn is the university’s weather station. Daily temperatures collected at the university have been forwarded to the Met Office since 1928. The latest Meteorological Monitoring System (MMS), which was installed in 2010, records the temperature by using a set of electrical resistance thermometers, or sensors. This information is then fed to the Met Office, which e-mails a summary of the data back to Harper Adams. The old weather system, which required a member of staff to manually capture data, recorded England’s lowest ever temperature, -26.1 degrees Celsius, on January 10, 1982. This made the Guinness Book of World Records. Crop protection is an important research area, developing strategies to manage pests and disease. FFCTB is the university’s specialist centre for crop protection research and teaching, working with horticultural, agricultural and non-food crops. The underpinning aim is to maintain high levels of sustainable crop yield methods that are compatible with the environment. Field trials currently exceed 60 hectares with more than 5,000 trial plots. FFCTB carries out major contracts for government, farmer-funded bodies and private clients. Adjacent to the FFCTB is the Jean Jackson Glasshouse, funded by a donation from the Jean Jackson charitable trust. It provides a range of high quality research facilities, supporting crop trial work. Starting from the front of the Main Building facing the cricket pitch, turn to your right and follow the path to the kissing gate and over the B5062 that bisects the university campus. Please be careful when crossing this busy main road. The building to your right is the... Weather Station Future Farm Crop Trials Building (FFCTB) 29 28 Access to all of these facilities is restricted. To arrange a tour please contact Reception (01952 820280) and ask for the Marketing Events Administrator. Veterinary Education Centre Entomology Centre CompanionAnimal House Harper Adams is a veterinary nurse approved centre (VNAC). The Veterinary Education Centre, opened in 2021 by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, is a great teaching resource for our clinical animal behaviour students as well as for all our veterinary courses, including those in collaboration with the Harper Keele Veterinary School.  It comprises both wet and dry labs, consulting and hydrotherapy suites (in the nearby Veterinary Services Centre (31)) , and a mock veterinary practice with consulting and prep rooms, x-ray facility and an operating theatre. Entomology, the study of insects, is integrated into both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Harper Adams. This carbon-friendly building (with a living roof) has been developed into an entomology laboratory with insect culturing facilities thanks to a generous donation from the Jean Jackson Charitable Trust. Insects and their relatives play an important role in all ecosystems. They range A valuable resource for those studying animals or veterinary nursing/physiotherapy, the CAH houses a range of companion and exotic animals such as chinchillas, rabbits, guinea pigs, tortoises, snakes, degus, lizards and mice. There is a stable behind the building for the small number of horses used to aid teaching – most are rescue animals. The sheep paddock next to the CAH is used as a teaching resource. 30 32 33 Continue along the path until, on your left, you come to the... Pause here to look at the opposite side of the road. This is the... Beyond the CAH you will see the... Next to the Veterinary Services Centre (31) , set back from the road, is the... from beneficial insects such as pollinators and natural control agents, to essential parts of the decomposition cycle, such as dung and carrion insects. Many are important pests in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, in addition to those that cause human health problems. The Entomology laboratory housed in this building includes a range of specialist research facilities, partially funded by the Jean Jackson charitable trust.