Search results for: animal welfare updates
Search results for: animal welfare updates
Why and how to do an energy audit
…– this can allow benchmarking with industry standards etc. Taking it a stage further can show energy per ton of grain or per animal. Is it worth considering sub-meters to…
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Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland: Soil secrets with Joel Williams
…and plant & animal nutrition – how an integrated approach can unlock farm profitability and business resilience. Fertiliser strategy – unpicking the role of fertilisers in crop production and how…
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Agribusiness News February 2024
…Government is now looking to eradicate BVD from Scotland. While this is viewed as an ambitious target, given that the BVD status for an individual animal or holding can be…
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Agribusiness News November 2023 – Sheep
…cheapest forms of animal protein as well as an increased supply of poultry due to a lower amount of avian influenza affecting flocks. EU customers The EU remains committed to…
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Organic Farming for New Entrants
…work to a strict set of standards; this ensures that their farms sustain the health of soils, ecosystems, animals and people. The key principles of organic agriculture are: Health Ecology…
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Going Organic – The Pros and Cons in Practice
…Paolo Berardelli who has farmed organically in Lochaber for around 20 years, Joanna Sinclair from SOPA the organic certification body, the animal health impact will be covered by Kythe MacKenzie…
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Climate Resilience Vlogs
…Alternative forages may hold potential for your farm to improve resilience to changing climate and benefit animal performance. In this video, Poppy Frater, SAC Consulting and William Flemming, Germinal GB,…
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Fundamentals of Soil Carbon
…animal wastes. Therefore, soil organic matter (SOM) contains a range of nutrients including carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other nutrients, with SOM being approximately 58% carbon. How is soil…
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Soil Health Testing – Why and How?
…are available to us to investigate the state of soil health. ‘Soil health’ the term for a soil’s ability to continue to provide multiple functions to sustain plant, animal, and…
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So You Want to Work with Cattle…?
…with cattle and observe them to ensure optimal animal health and basic record keeping. We will also discuss the processes around becoming self employed. Related FAS Materials: https://www.fas.scot/downloads/guide-to-keeping-cattle/ https://www.fas.scot/publication/cattle-health-factsheet/ https://www.fas.scot/publication/cattle-health-factsheet/…
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