Farm presentation

            The farm of Bazas Agricultural School is a separate economic structure.

It works along with the same rules and the same constraints as a private operator (or private company operator).

It offers students training, applications and observation periods together with professional realities.

The farmhouse has four missions:

• Production, with takes into account the progressive reduction of the environmental impacts.
• Group training with students on the work of various productions: courses, practical work and discussions with professionnals
• Experimentation: variety of maïze, sweet sorghum, lucerne and meslin used to feed the cattle herd, testing the technical conduct of heifers and fattening up oxen.
• Developement and animation of the territory: popularization of practices intended to the profession and general public; awareness of sustainable agriculture; promotion of the Bazadaise breed.

Different workshops

Cattle: A herd of 60 suckler cows of Bazadaise breed allows the production of red meat label, IGP “Bazas fat beef” and livestock breeding.

An innovative, modern loose housing (free housing) for winter 2013 was built during winter 2013 with a capacity of production and demonstration farming.

Poultry: 28 000 poultry red label (chickens yellow South West, capons and Guinea fowls) are produced in two barns recently automated and enclosed in 2 hectares of grassy path.

Crop production:

The Area Used for Agriculture (AUA) is approximately 100 ha.

The majority of surfaces is used to feed the cattle herd:

• grazing and maintenance of permanent grassland
• grassproduction (preserved as hay, silage or wrapped grass)
• cereal production (wheat, triticale)
• maïze production for silage or high moisture grain

or for the litter (wheat and triticale).

The farm is also involved in agro-environmental projects and measures and in the preservation of the Bazadaise breed (threatened breed).