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Agribusiness News April 2025 – Milk
Milk production data Milk production is increasing at a greater rate than this time last year, with the drier spring allowing earlier turnout in some areas. The latest data from…
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Agribusiness News April 2025 – Sustainable Proteins
Background To reduce reliance on imported protein feeds, livestock farmers have long been exploring the use of home-grown alternatives such as pulses, lupins, rapeseed and forage legumes. Currently, the UK…
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Agribusiness News April 2025 – Nature Based Solutions In A Chaotic Climate
What’s coming ahead? We are living in a rapidly warming and chaotic climate, with cascading and simultaneous effects of drought, flooding and extreme weather events across Scotland. Climate models predict…
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Agribusiness News April 2025 – Pollinator’s Value To Scottish Agriculture
Insect pollinators: their value to Scottish agriculture Flowering crops are alive with a diversity of insects including hoverflies, bees, beetles and butterflies. These beasties are hard at work collecting nectar…
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Agribusiness News April 2025 – UK Seasonal Worker Visas For 2025
UK Seasonal Worker Visas for 2025 Following a two-year extension, the Seasonal Workers Visa Scheme has now been extended for a further 5 years and is now guaranteed to run…
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Farming in a rapidly changing and chaotic climate
Lower yields, earlier harvest dates, crop establishment difficulties and higher cost for additional supplementary livestock feed are some of the impacts affecting the farming community as a result of climate…
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Biodiversity: Why is habitat connectivity important?
Scottish farmland supports a wide array of semi-natural habitats for wildlife, including hedgerows, water margins and woodlands. These features can also provide ecological stepping stones and corridors, enhancing habitat connectivity.…
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The Benefits of Dead Hedges and How to Build Them
Hedges perform a trifecta of functions linked to biodiversity enhancement, carbon capture and climate change mitigation. But living hedges present challenges, establishment can be difficult, protections are costly, and long-term…
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Red Clover as a home-grown protein in sustainable sheep systems
Increasing the amount of forage-based protein that can be grown on farm is a key way to address the UK’s protein deficit and reduce reliance on imported protein sources. Forage…
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The Potential of the Hemp Crop in Scotland
Is the hemp crop about to become mainstream in Scotland? A recent report Advancing a Sustainable Scottish Supply Chain for Industrial Hemp and Co-Products funded by IBioIC and Scottish Enterprise,…
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