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Win a MF 35 Tractor in full working order.   Many of you will have seen a photograph of this Massey Ferguson 35 in a previous issue of Tractor & Machinery, when it was purchased at H J Pugh’s auction

From East Africa to South East Devon; senior managers from agricultural training institutes and rural development projects from Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi have just completed an intensive six week training programme at Bicton College.  The delegates, who are supported by

Eight mature students joined us for the six week accredited course which started on the 20th of April. Five were from Kenya, two from Tanzania and one from Malawi.      From Kenya: • Catherine Mwangi, Executive Director, Anglican Development Services

Josephine Yongo, who attended the Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust course, Institutional Management and Business Planning (International) in 2014, took the time to send BOAT a Thank You card on behalf of Michele Ostertag, Executive Director and Founder of the Rafiki

Old friendship ties between Sidmouth and a remote community in Malawi have been rekindled in time to celebrate a 30-year link. It is thanks to one overseas student visiting Bicton College to take part in an agricultural course that Sid

Thank you everyone who bought Draw tickets this year to help keep BOAT afloat. The Draw was arranged by South East Devon Rotary and took place on 24th November and the £1,000 first prize winner was Natalia Michelak of Cullompton,

On Saturday 26th September, delegates who attended the 2015 Institutional Management & Business Planning course held at Bicton College were recognised for their achievement along with Bicton’s Higher Education students at a graduation ceremony in Otterton, Devon. Although not present,

Viv Horton shall be cycling the North American Epic from Anchorage in Alaska to Mexico City from 9th of July until 1st of November 2015, an interesting variant on the usual West – East crossing. The distance is 10,000 kilometres