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FAS TV S5 Episode 28
Cultivating change across crofts and farms with the use of technology and succession planning was the theme for this year’s FAS conference. On this week’s FAS TV ahead of the event, we met with headline speaker Nicola Wordie to learn how she uses technology on her farm and hear how her family have started succession planning.
Later we’re at the conference, where we hear from several of the day’s speakers’ discussing topics from heat and disease detection boluses to EID cattle tagging and inheritance tax and succession all aimed at helping rural businesses.
FAS TV covers a wide range of topics across sectors, as well as regular updates on regulatory and policy changes.
In this special edition of Crofting Matters, “Crofting Through the Seasons”, we take you back to Spring/Summer last year, where Ross Mackenzie visited the Staffin Sheepdog Trials on the Isle of Skye. Ross also joins a group of 30 Crofters who travelled to Wicklow in Ireland last Spring, to learn about Irish systems, and how Irish farmers make a living from small units.
FAS TV S5 Episode 28
Cultivating change across crofts and farms with the use of technology and succession planning was the theme for this year’s FAS conference. On this week’s FAS TV ahead of the event, we met with headline speaker Nicola Wordie to learn how she uses technology on her farm and hear how her family have started succession planning.
Later we’re at the conference, where we hear from several of the day’s speakers’ discussing topics from heat and disease detection boluses to EID cattle tagging and inheritance tax and succession all aimed at helping rural businesses.
FAS TV is a weekly agricultural show which recreates traditional on-farm visits.
Designed for farmers and crofters, each episode delivers technical messages in a digestible format, with real farmers demonstrating advice in practice.
Events
- 4 Mar Common Grazing: Smarter Management & Financial Know-How: Benbecula & South Uist – Part B
- 5 Mar Common Grazing: Smarter Management & Financial Know-How: North Uist – Part B
- 5 Mar Working with Nature: Practical Parasite Control in Sheep & Cattle
- 5 Mar Kilmuir Crofting Club – Final Winter Meeting
- 6 Mar Profitable Crofting Through Technology – Caithness
- 7 Mar Crofting Discussion Group – Uist
- 9 Mar Whole Farm Planning at The Catchment Scale
- 9 Mar Arable 2026 – Maximising Potential
- 10 Mar Horticulture: Identification, Prevention & Control of Pests & Diseases
- 12 Mar Soil Association – IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticultural Crops
Events
- 4 Mar Common Grazing: Smarter Management & Financial Know-How: Benbecula & South Uist – Part B
- 5 Mar Common Grazing: Smarter Management & Financial Know-How: North Uist – Part B
- 5 Mar Working with Nature: Practical Parasite Control in Sheep & Cattle
- 5 Mar Kilmuir Crofting Club – Final Winter Meeting
- 6 Mar Profitable Crofting Through Technology – Caithness
- 7 Mar Crofting Discussion Group – Uist
- 9 Mar Whole Farm Planning at The Catchment Scale
- 9 Mar Arable 2026 – Maximising Potential
- 10 Mar Horticulture: Identification, Prevention & Control of Pests & Diseases
- 12 Mar Soil Association – IPM in Action: From Research to Practice in Horticultural Crops
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