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New Entrants to Farming: A Business Plan Is More Than Just A Report (Ayr) Event Summary
Kev Bevan, gave an excellent presentation entitled a business plan is more than just a report. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage young farmers and new entrants to…
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New Entrants to Farming: Breeding the Best – Event Summary
The Uist New Entrants group were joined by SAC Sheep Specialist Poppy Frater to look at how to get the best from their Sheep Flock. With many crofters opting to…
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Tenant’s Improvements Amnesty – event summary
Your ‘One-stop shop’ for accessing all the critical information on the Tenant’s Improvements Amnesty Between July and December, The Scottish Government’s Farm Advisory Service (FAS) held a series of events across…
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New Entrants to Farming: Animal Health & Welfare Workshop (Borders) – Event Summary
New entrants to farming in the Borders recently attended an informative, hands on workshop on maintaining and improving animal health at the SAC Veterinary Services Centre at Greycrook, St Boswells.…
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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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