Beef: You & Yours

Agri Culture – Jim Chapman: Adapting to Life After an Accident

Listener Advisory Note : This episode contains a mention of suicide, please listen with care.  Mary-Jane Lawrie is joined by Jim Chapman, farmer and farm...

Agri Culture – Stephanie Berkeley: Yellow Wellies

Mary-Jane Lawrie is joined by Stephanie Berkeley from the Farm Safety Foundation Stephanie Berkeley is Manager of the Farm Safety Foundation, which you might know...

Farm Safety for Temporary Staff

Key information contained in this publication: Induct all temporary staff before they start work. Ensure all tasks are properly risk assessed by a competent person...

Overhead Powerlines: recognise the dangers and stay safe

How safe are you when you are working near overhead powerlines?   Every year people are killed or seriously injured when they come into contact with...

Preparing Stock for Sale – Top Tips

  Selling stock is an important part of any crofting or farming business. Before selling stock at the mart, there are a few things to...

Overview of Carbon Decision Making Tool for Beef Farmers

        A tool has been designed specifically for beef farms to support them in decision making to reduce emissions following the completion...

Purchasing Farm Software – What to Consider

Farm software can be a useful tool to help you stay compliant with regulations, to help keep track of inputs and outputs, and when combined...

Mental Health and Wellbeing in Agriculture

Ian Barr is a farmer and contractor based at Upper Dalhousie Farm near Edinburgh. Ian is the former President of Scottish Rugby and has some...

Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (Pairing Reader to Weigh Head)

By 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...

Embracing technology to improve sustainability – EID

In this episode, Daniel Stout of SAC Consulting speaks with Harriet Wishart from SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Research Farm about the different EID and data...

Farm Resilience – Driving Forward

Your opportunity to listen back to our evening with Jim Shanks, Colin McGregor, Neil Sandilands and Bob Prentice. Find out what makes a farm business...

Technology for Improved Animal Welfare: Electronic Weighing of Cattle

Bouncing Forward From A Crisis

Farming is a high pressure industry and while the lifestyle is great, at times of great uncertainty it is easy to become overwhelmed. With the...

Cost Savings Of Using A Drone

Could using a drone on farm save you money and reduce your labour costs?  Could it improve animal welfare?

Farm Business Planning: A View from the Bank

Resilience and Business Skills: An Interview with Bob Prentice

What is it that makes a farm business successful? And how can we all strive to be more resilient in the face of challenge and...

Take Care With Cows

Last month 3 people in the UK were unfortunately killed by cows!

Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers – Colin Hunter

In 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...