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Integrated Crop Management Roadshow: Fife – Event Summary
Integrated Crop Management – a more holistic approach that can benefit your farm yields This roadshow event was held at the Elmwood campus of SRUC on 25th January 2018 with…
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Lower Tweed Priority Catchment Solutions to Protect Water Quality – Event Summary
Protecting Water Quality This Borders meeting focused on solutions to protect water quality and featured a demo of spring back fencing. The unique fence design allows a stock fence to…
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New Entrants to Farming: Skye’s the Limit – Event Summary
On Thursday 22nd Feburary a group of new entrants from Uist crossed the minch to visit some crofting enterprises in Skye. The trip had been requested by a number of…
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Ramularia update
Ramularia leaf spotting can be a major cause of early leaf death in Scottish barley, with associated yield and quality losses. As it is a relatively new disease most winter…
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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.…
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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Bogindollo Farm, Angus
Introduction to Bogindollo Farm Bogindollo Farm is a mixed arable and suckler unit, run by Euan Crichton. The arable rotation includes winter and spring barley, spring oats, winter wheat and…
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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Girrick Farm, Roxburghshire
Background Girrick is an owner occupied mixed arable, beef and sheep unit farmed by Andrew Forster and his family. Girrick lies around 450ft above sea level and extends to 242ha, all…
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New Entrants to Farming: Business Planning, Budgeting & Farm Insurance – Event Summary
As a new entrant it is hugely important that you are able to convey your business ambitions to an audience, be that your family, external investers or even Scottish Government.…
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Using Forestry to Benefit your Business – Event Summary
We recently held two meetings on the 17th January. The first during the day at the Arran Outdoor Centre followed by an evening meeting at the SAC Consulting Office in Auchincruive Office. These meetings focused on how woodlands can work alongside your farming business.
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New Entrants to Farming: Joint Venture Farming – Event Summary
Key Points: Trust and respect between the farmer and contractor are vital to ensure the continued success of any agreement. Negotiation is very important when setting up an agreement –…
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