S1 Ep3: Alternative Watering - RAM pump - a podcast by Scotlands 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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