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New Entrants to Farming: Identifying & Grasping Business Opportunities (Argyll) – Event Summary
The first of the 2017 / 18 Argyll New Entrant Group meetings was held on Monday 11th December at the Falls of Lora Hotel, Connel. The theme was Identifying and…
Read More >Update of fungicide efficacy and resistance
Commercially, and in field trials, cereal fungicide programmes were pretty effective in 2017 and yield responses to fungicides reasonable but the dry spring did much to keep a lid on…
Read More >West Lothian Soil & Nutrient Network: Soil Health & Nutrient Use – Event summary
Second meeting of the West Lothian Soil & Nutrient Network The penultimate meeting for the West Binny soil and nutrient work farm was held at Oatridge College during December 2017.…
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 >Lanarkshire Soil & Nutrient Network: Final Meeting – Event Summary
Third and final group meeting This was the third and final meeting of the Lanarkshire SNN group. Those who had attended the first two meetings had commented that what they really…
Read More >Dairy Calf Nutrition (Stranraer) Event Summary
The two main take home messages of the meeting were; the 5 Q’s of colostrum management – Quality – good colostrum should contain 50g of IgG/litre – test using a…
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…
Read More >New Entrants to Farming: A Business Plan Is More Than A Report (Caithness) – Event Summary
Kev Bevan, FAS Team Leader from SAC Consutling in Ayr was the main speaker for this very informative evening on “Using Figures to Make Money”. For some the thought of…
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