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Don’t be Sheepish about Woodland Creation – Event Summary
This event focused on the creation of woodland both commercial and non-commercial, the funding available for creating these schemes and the non timber benefits of having woodland on your land…
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Pumps and Troughs: What are the alternatives to waterings? – Event Summary
This event was held near Fyvie & focussed on what the alternatives were to traditional waterings- which can lead to diffuse pollution from contamination to soil erosion from poaching. The Firm…
Read More >New farm business tools
Along with our helpline to call for advice and meetings to attend, the Scottish Farm Advisory Service has a wealth of online resources to support your business and to help…
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Small Farmers Meeting – An Introduction to Lambing Sheep – Event Summary
Key take-home messages: Be prepared. Stay calm. Get help – if in doubt, call in the vet. Most problems at lambing are nutrition related. If you manage condition correctly you…
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New Entrants to Farming: An Introduction to Lambing – Event Summary
Most problems at lambing are nutrition related. If you manage condition correctly you can minimise metabolic disorder, lambing issues and maximise the number of lambs reared. The participants were made…
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Diversifying your business with woodland creation – Event Summary
This event focused on diversifying your business via woodland creation and the benefits (timber and non timber) of having woodland on your land. Benefits include; Shelter for livestock Reduction of…
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Upland Habitats & Impact of Herbivores: Wester Ross – Event summary
The impacts of grazing of both domestic and wild herbivores affect the long term sustainability of upland habitats. For upland managers it is important to recognise these different upland habitats…
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Early disease management in cereals
The vanishing snow will leave ground conditions wetter than ever so we are probably some way away from early fungicide treatments in winter wheat and barley crops. Fortunately the need…
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Upland Habitats and Impact of Herbivores: Sutherland – Event summary
The impacts of grazing of both domestic and wild herbivores affect the long term sustainability of upland habitats. For upland managers it is important to recognise these different upland habitats…
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Common Grazings Discussion Group – Uist (second meeting) – Event Summary
The meeting started with Janette Sutherland reporting back to the group on the benchmarking survey undertaken at the launch meeting. A discussion followed on the pertinent points from the survey…
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