Danish students learn from their Scottish peers

More than 60 Danish agriculture students are to visit Scotland during January to study farming methods.

More than 60 Danish agriculture students are to visit Scotland during January to study farming methods. The Vanguard group of 20 – including Maria Jeppesen and Benjamin Dalsgaard (pictured) – has already arrived at Oatridge College in West Lothian.

The Vanguard group of 20 has already arrived at Oatridge College in West Lothian and will be followed by two more groups from Bygholm Landbrugsskole at Horsens, on the east coast of Denmark, during the month.

Each group is to spend a week at Oatbridge where they will attend classes, get involved in work on Oatridge's 300 hectare mixed farm and take part in an intensive programme of visits to other farms and agriculture-related companies.

Maria Jeppesen and Benjamin Dalsgaard were pictured taking a break while touring the Dandie family's Learielaw Farm near Broxburn, where the beef cattle herd captured the group's interest.

Maria said: "In Denmark our farms concentrate on pigs, dairy cattle and sometimes hens, so this is something new for most of us.