EPISODE · Nov 8, 2018 · 15 MIN
S1 Ep3: Alternative Watering - RAM pump
from Scotland's Farm Advisory Service Podcast
In this final episode of our Alternative Watering series, we hear from agricultural consultant Donald Dunbar and farmer John Anderson. John explains that cattle had previously been drinking from water from springs and ditches and burns. This caused poaching and health problems e.g. fluke and lungworm. Having limited alternative watering options available for the farm animals, John decided to install a traditional RAM pump. The pump is lifting the water up 105 m and pumping it a distance of over a kilometre. Technical Notes referred to in this podcast can be found at: Technical note (TN665): Alternative watering for field grazed livestock I – abstraction systems Technical note (TN666): Alternative watering for field grazed livestock II – pumping systems
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In this final episode of our Alternative Watering series, we hear from agricultural consultant Donald Dunbar and farmer John Anderson. John explains that cattle had previously been drinking from water from springs and ditches and burns. This caused poaching and health problems e.g. fluke and lungworm. Having limited alternative watering options available for the farm animals, John decided to install a traditional RAM pump. The pump is lifting the water up 105 m and pumping it a distance of over a kilometre. Technical Notes referred to in this podcast can be found at: [Technical note (TN665): Alternative watering for field grazed livestock I – abstraction systems](https://www.fas.scot/downloads/alternative-watering-field-grazed-livestock-i-abstraction-systems/) [Technical note (TN666): Alternative watering for field grazed livestock II – pumping systems](https://www.fas.scot/downloads/alternative-watering-field-grazed-livestock-ii-pumping-systems/)
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