We have a good relationship with the Agronomy Faculty of the University of the Republic, (Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República), which is located very close to Campo Longley. Students from the faculty sometimes visit the farm, and they have used our farm as a case study in research projects.

In the past we have also had students from the UK come to work on the Farm to carry out projects, normally over a couple of months. If you have a project in mind, and would be interested in coming to work on the farm, we would love to hear from you.
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Once again we received the visit of 22 second-year agricultural high school students from the UTU – General Directorate of Technical-Professional Education, from the Presidente Tomás Berreta School of Viticulture. Accompanied by their teachers, Nefi Echevarría and Marian Lancibidad, the group spent the entire afternoon with our veterinarian, Dr. Mauro Torterolo, and with our production manager, Ángel Lezcano. They were able to participate in some activities with our team in an afternoon full of information and learning.

We received three third-year students from the Occupational Health Technologist career at the School of Medical Technology, School of Medicine, University of the Republic who are completing their final degree monograph to complete the study cycle and who contacted us because they chose to do their final work on the activities of a dairy. We are still happy to be able to contribute to future professionals from different areas of our country!

We received the 4th year students of the Nutrition Degree of the Catholic University of Uruguay Accompanied by their teachers Margarita Núñez and Alfonsina Ortiz, they were received by our administrative assistant Dianela Rabino who showed them our facilities and the entire process that involves milk production under our strict quality parameters. It was a pleasure to receive students not directly linked to agro but who play an important role in raising awareness of the importance of the quality of the food we consume.

Once again, we had the pleasure of receiving the students together under the coordination of the Professor in the livestock area, Nefi Echevarría. In this instance, the students were shown different activities of our routine such as: touring the milking parlor and seeing how it works, visualizing the management of the different categories such as prepartum, rearing and calf area.

From August to December 2021 we welcome the students of 4th and 5th year, of the technological cycle of the undergraduate course of the Faculty of Agronomy, based in the Faculty of the South Regional Center for different instances of activities that culminated in a report end of course presented to those in charge of our establishment.

The work consisted of the planning and organization carried out in the classroom with the support of the teachers and with the visits. And the report presented two proposals for the establishment to implement new activities for the purpose of economic expansion.

Being our dairy a place of reference in the area for the use of the Jersey breed and the technological level of the resources we have to produce, the teacher in the livestock area, Nefi Echevarría, has contacted us to visit us with his students from second level, where they address the dairy issue.

In this instance, the students were shown different activities of our routine such as:

• touring the milking parlor and seeing how it works
• visualizing the management of the different categories such as prepartum, rearing and guachera.
• talk about general aspects of forage food management and supplementation, health management and productive results of the breed, etc.

In 2015, Grace and Niamh Howarth visited Campo Longley for 6 weeks. Whilst they were there they helped around the dairy with cleaning and repainting, planted trees and also wrote ‘A Student Guide to Campo Longley and Uruguay’

At the time of their visit Grace Howarth was a 2nd year chemistry student at York University, and Niamh had just finished her A levels; she is now preparing to go to Bangor University to student Sports Science.

You can download their project here

In 2014, Grace Howarth and Andrew Baker visited Campo Longley. In addition to helping with the calves and in the dairy they also carried out a study on cow nutrition and milk production entitled ‘Milk production at Campo Longley – A review and analysis of the inputs and outputs.’

At the time of their visit Grace Howarth was a 1st year chemistry student at York University, and Andrew was a 1st year land economy student at Cambridge University.

You can download their project here

In 2012, Elspeth visited and worked at Campo Longley helping on the dairy for 3 months, including painting the Campo Longley mural. This was the time of the new diary re-fit, therefore she participated and helped during this transition from milking 20 cows to 40 cows at one time! She also worked teaching English as a Foreign Language in a local language school in Progresso. In 2013, Elspeth then returned to Campo Longley for 6 months to facilitate a renovation project on a farm house.

At the time of her visit, Elspeth was on a gap year which led her to return to university, Goldsmiths London to study Social Work MA.