Beef: You & Yours
Information on Health & Safety, how technology can help you, and keeping yourself healthy
Reviewing Your Livestock Farming Costs
The top 25% of Scottish Beef and Sheep Less Favoured Area (LFA) farms have 67% greater costs than the average, yet return 116% greater revenue. This is a finding from…
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Overhead Powerlines: recognise the dangers and stay safe
August 29, 2023How safe are you when you are working near overhead powerlines? Every year people are killed or seriously injured when they come into contact with...
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Preparing Stock for Sale – Top Tips
April 12, 2023Selling stock is an important part of any crofting or farming business. Before selling stock at the mart, there are a few things to consider....
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Overview of Carbon Decision Making Tool for Beef Farmers
April 6, 2023A tool has been designed specifically for beef farms to support them in decision making to reduce emissions following the completion...
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Purchasing Farm Software – What to Consider
March 23, 2023Farm software can be a useful tool to help you stay compliant with regulations, to help keep track of inputs and outputs, and when combined...
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Mental Health and Wellbeing in Agriculture
December 1, 2022Ian Barr is a farmer and contractor based at Upper Dalhousie Farm near Edinburgh. Ian is the former President of Scottish Rugby and has some...
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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Pairing Reader to Weigh Head)
May 10, 2021By pairing a canner and a weigh-head, you can make weighing animals paper free and time efficient. This short video shows the simple steps you’ll...
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Embracing technology to improve sustainability – EID
December 16, 2020In this episode, Daniel Stout of SAC Consulting speaks with Harriet Wishart from SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Research Farm about the different EID and data...
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Farm Resilience – Driving Forward
December 10, 2020Your opportunity to listen back to our evening with Jim Shanks, Colin McGregor, Neil Sandilands and Bob Prentice. Find out what makes a farm business...
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Bouncing Forward From A Crisis
December 4, 2020Farming is a high pressure industry and while the lifestyle is great, at times of great uncertainty it is easy to become overwhelmed. With the...
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Cost Savings Of Using A Drone
November 23, 2020Could using a drone on farm save you money and reduce your labour costs? Could it improve animal welfare?
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Resilience and Business Skills: An Interview with Bob Prentice
November 17, 2020What is it that makes a farm business successful? And how can we all strive to be more resilient in the face of challenge and...
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Take Care With Cows
October 9, 2020Last month 3 people in the UK were unfortunately killed by cows!
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Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers – Colin Hunter
September 17, 2020In this episode Mary-Jane Lawrie speaks with Colin Hunter, who farms at Stonelaws Farm in East Lothian. Colin has been farming with min till and...
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Overhead Powerlines: recognise the dangers and stay safe
August 29, 2023How safe are you when you are working near overhead powerlines? Every year people are killed or seriously injured when they come into contact with...
Read more >Preparing Stock for Sale – Top Tips
April 12, 2023Selling stock is an important part of any crofting or farming business. Before selling stock at the mart, there are a few things to consider....
Read more >Overview of Carbon Decision Making Tool for Beef Farmers
April 6, 2023A tool has been designed specifically for beef farms to support them in decision making to reduce emissions following the completion...
Read more >Purchasing Farm Software – What to Consider
March 23, 2023Farm software can be a useful tool to help you stay compliant with regulations, to help keep track of inputs and outputs, and when combined...
Read more >Mental Health and Wellbeing in Agriculture
December 1, 2022Ian Barr is a farmer and contractor based at Upper Dalhousie Farm near Edinburgh. Ian is the former President of Scottish Rugby and has some...
Read more >Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Pairing Reader to Weigh Head)
May 10, 2021By pairing a canner and a weigh-head, you can make weighing animals paper free and time efficient. This short video shows the simple steps you’ll...
Read more >Embracing technology to improve sustainability – EID
December 16, 2020In this episode, Daniel Stout of SAC Consulting speaks with Harriet Wishart from SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Research Farm about the different EID and data...
Read more >Farm Resilience – Driving Forward
December 10, 2020Your opportunity to listen back to our evening with Jim Shanks, Colin McGregor, Neil Sandilands and Bob Prentice. Find out what makes a farm business...
Read more >Bouncing Forward From A Crisis
December 4, 2020Farming is a high pressure industry and while the lifestyle is great, at times of great uncertainty it is easy to become overwhelmed. With the...
Read more >Cost Savings Of Using A Drone
November 23, 2020Could using a drone on farm save you money and reduce your labour costs? Could it improve animal welfare?
Read more >Resilience and Business Skills: An Interview with Bob Prentice
November 17, 2020What is it that makes a farm business successful? And how can we all strive to be more resilient in the face of challenge and...
Read more >Take Care With Cows
October 9, 2020Last month 3 people in the UK were unfortunately killed by cows!
Read more >Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers – Colin Hunter
September 17, 2020In this episode Mary-Jane Lawrie speaks with Colin Hunter, who farms at Stonelaws Farm in East Lothian. Colin has been farming with min till and...
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