Happy new year! We come back with renewed energy, looking forward to
an even better 2020.
The photo shows the Christmas lunch where Quintane’s families and staff
share the table and desire to begin a new period with more harmony,
cooperation and effort than ever.
A memory to start the new year with a smile and illusion.
On 17th December, the Mas Bes dairy farm, received the visit of first-year students of High Level of Livestock and Animal Health. Mas Bes is a company that produces cow milk branded ATO Nature.
Aleix Viñolas, explained the evolution and how the farm operates nowadays, the biogas plant where they produce electricity, and the farm’s visits available to all kind of groups of people interested. The visitors can supplement the experience visiting the historical Farm Museum, seeing the evolution of farmers’ lifestyle, the shop where you can buy several farm’s products, and finally eating in the farm’s restaurant.
One of the next Mas Bes projects will be the installation of photovoltaic solar panels to produce the electricity consumed by the farm.
Mas Bes is an example of a company open to the public, which evolves, undertakes news projects, and announces products which are the result of their work and values.
We, the School, thank the Mas Bes farm, for giving us the opportunity to make this interesting visit.
More information:
https://www.masbes.com/
+ info: https://www.masbes.com
On 3rd December, the 2o students of Cicle Formatiu de Grau Mitjà de
Producció Agropecuària, visited “El Pinós Nou” a family-owned dairy cow
farm located in Rupit.
The daily milk work follows the protocol to provide milk quality, and the
quality is certificated by the periodic audits of the productive process.
The cows are distributed in homogenous groups for their best well-being
and productive organization. The cows are fed with portions adapted on
their necessities, based on the food analysis. Another important aspect is
the management and reproduction controls, and the selection of
morphological character, productive and functionals characters of the
females assigned for replacement.
The selection is made thanks to the genomics analysis, the use of
sexed/sexing semen, the use of stallions with A2A2 genes, and so on.
The cows in pre-birth phase have a wide reserved space, made it to
facilitate the highest comfort and the birth of the cows. Sanitary Control is
based on the prevention and starts with the correct transmission of
defences that mother does to her newborn calf with the quality colostrum
ingestion.
Other last things introduced at the height of environmental management
are the distance Solid-Liquid of the purine, the composting of the solid
fraction and the reuse for the cow bed.
We express our gratitude to Gerard, Jorge and Sebastián, responsibles for
the farm, to their attention and explanations of the different aspects of
the farm they keep in mind: management, feeding, reproduction,
genetics, sanity, facilities, animal well-being, environmental management,
etc.
Thursday, 14th of November the 1o students of GM of Jardineria visited Honda Green’s facilities in La Garriga. This visit is associated with the machinery of the gardening syllabus. Mr Pedro Sillero explained to us everything related with the most used machines in the sector. For instance: lawnmowers, strimmers, chainsaws of the ECHO brand, and so on. We were able to check the cut of the manual SILKY tools. After all of this, we visited the facilities and they gave us a demonstration of some machines mentioned before. In addition, we talked about the present and the future of the new battery machines in this sector. It is important to keep abreast of market newnesses showed by the leaders. A very nice visit, very grateful for the students.
7 of November, the 2o GM students of “Producció Agropecuària” visited Can Toi porcine farm located in Sant Marti Sescorts. “Can Toi” is a familiar farm type and an innovative farm model with a continuous improvement spirit, and with projects to keep adapting in the current situation of the market and all the sectors demands We appreciate Ramon Molist and Pedro Casals, who are in charge of the farm, for their attention and explanations of the different aspects they keep in mind for the farm: genetics, management, alimentation, reproduction, facilities, health service, environmental process and so on. bienestar animal, gestión medioambiental, etc.
We are curious, we like to share to improve. This is one of our
characteristics, discover and exchange educative project experiences over
the world. We have had a visit of Mr Idahri, director of SS Iaalatten
de Segangan (Nador, Morocco). A very enriching day.
FR: Nous sommes curieux, nous aimons partager pour nous améliorer.
C’est l’une de nos caractéristiques: découvrir et échanger des expériences
de projets éducatifs dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, nous avons eu la
visite de M. Idahri, directeur du SS Iaalatten de Segangan (Nador,
Maroc). Une journée enrichissante.
Since 2 years ago, EFA Quintanes School has provided ECC school year (European Chainsaw Certificate). School intends to get close to the companies and self-sufficient to make a professional and improve safety and work in the forest sector conditions. We provide ECC1, ECC2 and ECC3. Also, Quintanes offer the possibility to do a “preparatory” intensive course for those who have done an official ECC school year and want to do an exam. Currently, more than 25 persons have done this academic training. Each time the number of people interested increase and contact us to request information because it’s necessary to promote in the workwise or to guarantee business professionalism. If you are interested to know about when is the next academic training, call 93.850.24.41 or send an email to efa@quintanes.com. The groups are small.
+ info: http://www.quintanes.com/carnet-motoserra
The last 20 of September, the 1o students of GS of “Ramaderia i assistència animal” visited the agrarian company of Soler de N’Hug in Prats de Lluçanès. There, we were able to see a company working with different production (milk, meat), various types of cattle (bovine, ovine, porcine) and the last fabrication (milk, meat) that are assigned to short circuit sells (own stores and small butchers) and not for the industry. And that’s not all, because at this point it’s the only Catalan company that has a low capacity abattoir destined to the ovine animals who have been breed in the same company. We want to show gratitude for the disponibility of Peraire brothers (Abel and Pep) and also their father (Toni) for explaining to us how it works such a varied agrarian company
The last 4 of October, the students of 2o of GM “Agrario” went to visit an agrarian company of Mas Terricabres in Oristà. This visit consists to see a familiar business to make the students think about ideas for the project they do during this course. Besides visiting the cattle: beef cows, calves and pigs, they showed us about their work with alternative energies like photovoltaic sheets and biomass splinter for the heatings. The company is also working with different native of chickpeas, green tomatoes and wheat to prevent their extinction. It has been a pleasant visit and the family has attended us excellently.
To start the academy course with energy and cause awareness, each year we organize a trip with Gestió Forestal i del Medi Natural students in Osona. The trip was in Vidrà-St. Pere de Torelló by Forat Micó. This route is done for some reasons: in order to observe different kind of forests, to work the plants associations, to visualize the different plants in function of the climate and to get a closer the forestry process and last, but not least, to promote group cohesion.
+ info: https://www.marimurtra.cat/
With the aim of responding to the needs of the work market, the vocational training dual bet to increase the collaboration among professional educational centers and companies, in the student's formative process. In this school year 2018 -2019 we have started to teach in the dual modality the medium-grade cycle of agricultural production. The agreements of collaboration between the company and the school have been formalized to be able to carry out the FCT in the modality dual. After educating the company tutor, the individual agreement is implemented where the conditions are established in order to develop a dual training. After some time, when the student is in a company, the monitoring visits begin which will determinate how will be the following of the practices and the objectives are defined for the student who will have to achieve them during summer.
+ info: http://queestudiar.gencat.cat/ca/estudis/fp/mesures-flexib/fp-dual/index.html
The technic journey of fruit growing has provided the quality improvements of the second medium-grade students of agriculture and livestock holding, in the discovery of new varieties and crop techniques. They visited Mas Badia, a center that works together with IRTA. It's about an experimental farming season which has as objective conduct the activities of agricultural experimentation that allow the improvement and orient the province of Gerona's farming.
+ info: http://www.irta.cat/ca/centre/mas-badia/
Friday, May 24th the students of first medium -grade of agriculture and livestock went to visit Can Bartomeu. This company has as activities, for example, the extensive crops (it has 500 hectares: some of them are Can Bartomeu's property and the others are leased), works to third parties, fatten up porcine and expand agrotourism. The house son, Marc Fitó, has taught us the activities in which the company is engaged, remarking the plagues and crops illness and the way to confront them. Besides, he has taught us and explained the machines they use, their characteristics and functioning. Whereas in the agrotourism, Marc has told they have a rural independent lodging modality. To conclude, it has been a visit in which the students have had the opportunity to see the different activities focused on the same field, and thanks to these varieties of activities, the company is able to work.
