Lantra Frameworks

Agriculture

Agriculture is the most significant industry for the environmental and land-based sector in Scotland and is split into two areas: livestock such as dairy cows, cattle for beef, sheep for wool and lamb, pigs and poultry; and crops like wheat, oats, peas, oilseed rape and grass for livestock.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms in inland and coastal areas, involving intervention in the rearing process to enhance production and the individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated. The intervention may include activities such as regular stocking, feeding and individual or corporate stock ownership.

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Equine

The Equine industry covers a broad area of work, including riding schools, livery yards, competition yards, clubs, instructors and racing yards. Apprentices will with a wide range of horses and people and will carry out activities such as grooming, mucking out and maintaining the welfare of horses.

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Game and Wildlife Management

The game and wildlife industry includes everything to do with the management of upland, lowland, woodland and wetland game and wildlife species, including partridge, grouse, pheasant and deer. The industry also supports tourism and recreation.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is a diverse industry covering a wide range of job roles, including: hard, soft and interior landscaping, sports turf and golf greenkeeping, private, heritage and botanic gardens, commercial grounds, public parks and green spaces.

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Land-based Engineering

Businesses in land-based engineering work with a wide range of machinery, including tractors, combine harvesters, grounds maintenance machinery, chainsaws, milking equipment and construction machinery.

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Rural Skills

Estate maintenance and management embraces activities associated with agriculture, forestry and woodland management, sporting use of land, renewable energies, tourism and leisure, residential and commercial property, and conservation management.

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Trees and Timber

The Modern Apprenticeship developed by LANTRA has two different workstreams: arboriculture and forestry, which both involve working with and around trees. Forestry focuses on the management of forests and woodland, while arboriculture centres on the cultivation and care of trees for amenity purposes.

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