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News

Plant health: New threats and new tools

Plant health threats are a moving target, and the best management tools alter with each season so it pays to stay up to date.

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Slurry lagoons – more than just a hole in the ground

The high and above average rainfall during winter 2017 highlighted the need for extra slurry…

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Benefits of Colostrum Pasteurisation

Many disease causing organisms can be transmitted to calves via colostrum feeding, such as Mycoplasma, Listeria, E.coli, Salmonella and perhaps most importantly, the bacteria that causes Johne’s disease (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis or MAP).

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Events

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    Feb
    Banffshire Soil & Nutrient Network: Save money with effective nutrient budgeting
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    Feb
    Futureproof Your Hill Farm: Making more out of what you’ve got
  • 19
    Feb
    Sheep Condition Scoring and Nutrition – Kilberry
  • 19
    Feb
    Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd event – Counting the value of slurry
  • 19
    Feb
    A Practical Approach to NVZs and Cross Compliance – Thainstone
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Publications

Case Study: Billy Matheson

Natural Flood Management – Podcast

Animal Welfare Updates February 2019

Commercial timber income from low productivity upland

AgriBusiness News February 2019

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ILMP, Carbeth Home Farm
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