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Spring Calving Checklist
As calving approaches, it is a great time to take stock, and look at your management over the spring calving period. Ensuring the management is tight over calving, will have…
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Making your soil analysis help you manage fertiliser costs
The last 12 months have seen fertilisers rocket in price, with nitrogen typically tripling in value with potash and phosphate doubling over the same period. This has meant that farmers…
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Preventing Watery Mouth
A product that some sheep farmers use at lambing time, Spectam Scour Halt, has supply issues and therefore will not be available for the coming lambing season. Spectam Scour Halt (active ingredient: spectinomycin) is the only licensed oral antibiotic for watery mouth prevention in neonatal lambs.
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Crop Trial Results from 2021
Low disease levels at the start of the 2021 season converted to much higher levels by the end of the season, although there were still plenty of situations where lower input approaches to crops could be justified. Learning the lessons from the 2021 trial season and picking out the lessons for 2022 will be core to the information presented at FAS / AHDB / SRUC January agronomy workshops.
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Spring Barley Varieties for 2022
The spring barley list was consolidated considerably in 2021 with the main malting choices being Laureate and LG Diablo. The winter barley list includes the two-row feed varieties, KWS Tardis, Bolton and Bordeaux, plus two new six-row hybrids, SY Kingston and SY Thunderbolt.
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Farm Buildings and Infrastructure: How to Comply with Current Legislation
Updated 25th March 2026 Introduction As farm businesses seek to become more efficient and sustainable for the future, farm steadings continue to be developed with the addition of housing to…
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Agri Machinery – Are You Legal?
Over the last decade agricultural machinery has developed at a rapid rate. With machines constantly increasing in both size ad power, it is important that farmers keep on top of…
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2021 Scottish Potato Crop Inspections and Statistics
Potatoes are a vegetatively propagated crop, and the health status of Scottish seed potatoes is a strategic priority. SASA, the authority responsible for safeguarding the health of Scottish Seed potatoes carries out growing crop inspections for all certified seed. A summary of the 2021 growing crop inspections has recently been released highlighting the high health status of Scottish potatoes, but also bringing timely reminders of threats that need proper management.
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Mapping with myForest (FWN37 Autumn 2021)
Sylva Foundation is developing an innovative online tool to support people in designing and creating new woodlands that meet the UK Forestry Standard. As societal attitudes shift, and more grant…
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Scottish Forestry Aims to Sink Carbon Emissions During Woodland Creation (FWN37 Autumn 2021)
There has been a great deal of discussion in recent years about the potential of trees to act as a carbon sink, sucking in carbon from the atmosphere and keeping…
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