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Growing More Grass (Benbecula) – Event summary
Good grassland management is key to improving the efficiency of our sheep and beef enterprises. This event looked at how to get the most out of the grassland on crofts…
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New Entrants to Farming: Livestock Health and Nutrition (Forfar) – Event Summary
This was the 6th meeting of the Forfar New Entrants to Farming group where the main focus for the night was on livestock health and nutrition. Speakers on the night…
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Integrated Crop Management Roadshow: Perth – Event Summary
Integrated Crop Management – a more holistic approach that can benefit your farm yields The Perth & Angus event of this roadshow was held at the Huntingtower Hotel during December. …
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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