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North East Smallholders Discussion Group – Second Meeting – Event Summary
The second meeting of the north east smallholders discussion group took place on Wednesday 14th March where the topic up for discussion on the night grassland management. The topic was…
Read More >Borders Small Farms Workshop – Event Summary
The Borders Small Farms Discussion Group recently met to discuss soil and grassland management and flock health topics in the run up to lambing.
Read More >Common Grazings Discussion Group – Lewis (second meeting) – Event Summary
This meeting started with Janette reporting back from the bench marking survey undertaken at the launch meeting on from questions relevant to tonight’s topics. 100% of the common grazings at…
Read More >Sheep Identification & Record Keeping for Sheep Stock Clubs and Common Graziers (Skye) – Event Summary
Slips up with tagging and record keeping are a common cause for cross compliance penalities. This course allowed Sheep Stock Clubs and graziers who use common grazings to refresh and…
Read More >Islay Business Discussion Group – Land Registry Event Summary
This Islay Business Discussion Group meeting was attended by 13 farmers & crofters. Unfortunately a ferry mix-up by the guest speakers meant they arrived late. While waiting the group discussed…
Read More >Islay Agricultural Business Group – Beef & Sheep Marketing – Event Summary
Islay Discussion Group held a meeting with guest speaker Robert Logan explaining the current market trends and influences and explored how this could affect local prices in the near future.…
Read More >Stonehaven Smallholders Discussion Group – Event Summary
Some of the north east smallholders in the area got together to see if their was interest for forming a regular discussion group. On the night there were discussion on:…
Read More >Common Grazings Discussion Group – Skye – Event Summary
The launch meeting of the Common Grazings discussion group went well. The survey undertaken by the attendees has revealed interesting information that will be the basis for future work and…
Read More >Testing Times – Winter Cattle Management (Isle of Lewis) – Event summary
Winter Cattle Management on the Isle of Lewis 13 participants from across Lewis and Harris took up the opportunity to see round the new (and only) dairy on the island,…
Read More >Common Grazings Discussion Group – Uist – Event Summary
The launch meeting of the Common Grazings discussion group went well. The survey undertaken by the attendees has revealed interesting information that will be the basis for future work and…
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