Ignore the charts and gain important knowledge while you work

Forget Beyonce, Lady Gaga and JLS, a new release from HCC is sure to be a hit among farmers.

Gaining knowledge has never been easier thanks to a new service that will allow farmers to listen to information instead of music in their tractors or cars.

Hybu Cig Cymru - Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) is offering farmers and students the chance to download two of their popular information booklets as audiobooks in English and Welsh.

HCC's Practical Sheep Nutrition booklet and Lameness factsheet are now available as MP3's that people can listen to in their tractors or on their Ipods.

If the pilot project is successful, HCC plans to make more of its publications available in this format.

Dewi Hughes, HCC's Project Executive, said: "We were looking for new ways to allow farmers to gain access to the wide range of knowledge that we have available from our publications library.

"MP3 players are becoming cheaper and more popular and so we felt that this was a good way that people can learn more about sheep health while carrying out their daily work."

The audiobooks are available to download from the HCC website or can be placed on a CD and sent to farmers on request.

Notes

The audibooks can be downloaded from the following address: http://www.hccmpw.org.uk/publications/audiobooks

Copies can also be obtained on CD by contacting HCC on 01970 625050.

The audiobooks have been produced with funding from the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007 - 2013.