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Technology to Improve Business Performance and Resilience – Beef
In this series of three fact sheets an arable, beef and sheep farmer have been interviewed to find out what key pieces of farm technology they cannot do without. In…
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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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Technology to Improve Business Performance and Resilience – Beef
January 20, 2023In this series of three fact sheets an arable, beef and sheep farmer have been interviewed to find out what key pieces of farm technology...
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Merry Christmas from Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer
December 20, 2022Here’s a message for Christmas and the year ahead from our Kiwi friend Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer. Merry Christmas and all the best for...
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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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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (UHF Tags)
May 10, 2021In this video David Kerr from ScotEID discusses the differences between Low Frequency RFID and Ultra High Frequency RFID technology. Highlighting some of the reasons...
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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (J & M Anderson)
May 10, 2021In this video we meet Tom Nelson from J and M Anderson farm supplies. He is one of many companies supplying cattle and sheep Tags....
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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Coull Farm)
May 10, 2021In this video we meet Andrew Jones from Coull farm Islay. Andrew is one of the many Scot EID Pilot farms. Andrew has started using...
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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Girtridge Farm)
May 10, 2021In this video John Howie introduces us to his EID system. John got involved with EID through his time as a QMS monitor Farm. John...
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Livestock Monthly Podcast: Beef (April 2021)
April 30, 2021In the latest of our livestock monthly podcasts episodes hosted by Beef Specialist Robert Ramsay of SAC Consulting, we talk beef with Veterinary Investigation Officer,...
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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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Technology for Improved Animal Welfare – EID
December 2, 2020Daniel Stout of SAC Consulting speaks with Harriert Wishart from SRUC’s Kirkton farm about the different EID and data recording technology now available and how...
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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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Webinar: Drones and Devices for Modern Day Farming
October 15, 2020Thought drones were just for fun, for taking aerial shots and pretty pictures? Did you know a drone could save you time...
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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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Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers: John Sinclair
September 11, 2020John Sinclair owns and runs Craigies Farm Shop just outside Edinburgh. It’s a family run business with pick your own fruit and veg as well...
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Webinar Recording: Climate Change – Cows v Cars
August 11, 2020The ‘silver-bullet’ solution to the climate change crisis is for consumers to stop eating meat – fact or fiction? Topics surrounding climate change and GHG...
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Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers – Bill & Helen Smith of The Byres Farm, Fochabers
June 26, 2020In the first of our series of podcasts with Forward Thinking Farmers, Mary-Jane Lawrie spoke to Bill and Helen Smith of The Byres Farm, Fochabers. ...
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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...
Read more >Technology to Improve Business Performance and Resilience – Beef
January 20, 2023In this series of three fact sheets an arable, beef and sheep farmer have been interviewed to find out what key pieces of farm technology...
Read more >Merry Christmas from Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer
December 20, 2022Here’s a message for Christmas and the year ahead from our Kiwi friend Doug Avery, the Resilient Farmer. Merry Christmas and all the best for...
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 >Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (UHF Tags)
May 10, 2021In this video David Kerr from ScotEID discusses the differences between Low Frequency RFID and Ultra High Frequency RFID technology. Highlighting some of the reasons...
Read more >Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (J & M Anderson)
May 10, 2021In this video we meet Tom Nelson from J and M Anderson farm supplies. He is one of many companies supplying cattle and sheep Tags....
Read more >Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Coull Farm)
May 10, 2021In this video we meet Andrew Jones from Coull farm Islay. Andrew is one of the many Scot EID Pilot farms. Andrew has started using...
Read more >Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Girtridge Farm)
May 10, 2021In this video John Howie introduces us to his EID system. John got involved with EID through his time as a QMS monitor Farm. John...
Read more >Livestock Monthly Podcast: Beef (April 2021)
April 30, 2021In the latest of our livestock monthly podcasts episodes hosted by Beef Specialist Robert Ramsay of SAC Consulting, we talk beef with Veterinary Investigation Officer,...
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 >Technology for Improved Animal Welfare – EID
December 2, 2020Daniel Stout of SAC Consulting speaks with Harriert Wishart from SRUC’s Kirkton farm about the different EID and data recording technology now available and how...
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 >Webinar: Drones and Devices for Modern Day Farming
October 15, 2020Thought drones were just for fun, for taking aerial shots and pretty pictures? Did you know a drone could save you time...
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...
Read more >Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers: John Sinclair
September 11, 2020John Sinclair owns and runs Craigies Farm Shop just outside Edinburgh. It’s a family run business with pick your own fruit and veg as well...
Read more >Webinar Recording: Climate Change – Cows v Cars
August 11, 2020The ‘silver-bullet’ solution to the climate change crisis is for consumers to stop eating meat – fact or fiction? Topics surrounding climate change and GHG...
Read more >Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers – Bill & Helen Smith of The Byres Farm, Fochabers
June 26, 2020In the first of our series of podcasts with Forward Thinking Farmers, Mary-Jane Lawrie spoke to Bill and Helen Smith of The Byres Farm, Fochabers. ...
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