Sustainable Systems: Farming Challenges
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Climate Resilience Case Study – Windshiel Farm
Joe Baker, Windshiel Farm, Scottish Borders Windshiel is a 500 acre (202 hectares) family-run organic farm set on the edge of the Lammermuir hills, approximately 900 feet above sea level.…
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How to Spot Q Fever and What Action to Take
February 12, 2024The disease Q fever is caused by the bacteria Coxiella Burnetii which can infect cattle, sheep and goats. It can also cause disease in humans,...
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Green Finance
January 24, 2024In this episode of Natural Capital, we are talking about the issue that underpins every topic we cover, and that is finance and funding! With...
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Protecting Atlantic Salmon
January 10, 2024At COP28 the decision was taken by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to reassess the status of Atlantic salmon, moving it from a...
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Thrill of The Hill – Agrecalc Cloud: The Sky’s the Limit
December 21, 2023THRILL OF THE HILL | Carbon and benchmarking carbon are here to stay, firmly embedded in the best practice for the farming community. With COP28...
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Kirsten Williams: Let your determination grow stronger
December 15, 2023Mary-Jane Lawrie is joined by Kirsten Williams. Kirsten is a livestock specialist with SAC Consulting and she also runs a farm business on Ranna Farm...
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Farm Labour shortages, free upskilling events, and a conversation with The Soil Association
August 2, 2023Welcome back to the Rural Round-up hosted by me, Kerry Hammond. This show is produced in association with the Scottish Government. On today’s episode Tiffany,...
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Agribusiness News April 2023 – Input Costs: Seasonal Workers
April 3, 2023Seasonal Worker Sponsor Licences The regulations of Seasonal Worker Sponsor Licences apply to any overseas national that a UK farm wishes to employ if they...
Read more >Nature Based Solutions to Combat Drought and Flooding
March 10, 2023Climate change and increase in drought and flooding Climate change is set to bring on a change in our weather systems, with extreme weather conditions...
Read more >Advertising an Agricultural Job: How to Approach It
March 10, 2023Finding staff to fill agricultural jobs is getting harder and this publication is the third in a series that gives helpful hints and tips on...
Read more >Eye-catching Agricultural Job Adverts: How To Create Them
March 3, 2023In a time where it is getting increasingly harder to recruit staff into the agricultural industry, it is important that you can stand out from...
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Thrill of the Hill 9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon
January 31, 2023Episode #9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon. In this episode we hear from Senior Scientific Lead Rachael Ramsay about the scientific consensus around soil...
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Targeted Selective Treatment in Sheep
October 3, 2022Wormer resistance is becoming an issue on many farms across the country and all farmers should look at options to improve the efficacy of wormers...
Read more >
Getting the farm ‘climate ready’
March 17, 2022Farmers and land managers are constantly making business decisions whilst having to factor in and account for various unknowns; fluctuating commodity prices, market trends, changing...
Read more >Alternative Clostridial Vaccines
March 14, 2022There have been lots of supply issues over the last two years and some medicines have been affected. You may have struggled to get hold...
Read more >
Integrated Pest Management – Top Tips from High Scoring Farms
February 28, 2022The IPM planning tool for Scottish growers is starting to give useful insights about what high scoring farms do and where they get their information....
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Making Sheep Systems Sustainable: Controlling Liver Fluke
February 4, 2022Daniel Stout speaks with Dr Philip Skuce from Moredun Research Institute about liver fluke in sheep. Resistance to triclabendazole, the only flukicide effective against all...
Read more >Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Sustainable Principles
December 10, 2021Managing Scotland’s landscapes sustainably is what all farmers, crofters and landowners seek to achieve. For years now there has been a steady increase in the...
Read more >
Cropcast: Integrated Pest Management
November 25, 2021Integrated pest management (IPM) is a holistic approach to pest management that aims to maximise profit whilst also aiming to minimising the negative impacts of...
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Cropcast: The Journey To Net Zero
November 5, 2021Net Zero is a phrase that we hear all the time, but what does the journey to net zero look like for cropping systems. In...
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Women in Agriculture, Caithness: Confused about Carbon? Let’s Clear the Air!
October 10, 2021So much talk about reducing farm emissions, lowering your carbon footprint, carbon neutral, net zero and how to farm more efficiently…..confused by all this and...
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Sustainable Sheep Systems – Getting on top of lameness
August 28, 2021Agricultural Consultant Daniel Stout speaks with Professor Laura Green OBE about how best to get on top of footrot and reduce lameness in the flock....
Read more >Thrill of The Hill – Farming for 1.5 Degrees
July 21, 2021Farming as with all other industries has been set the challenge of operating more efficiently and sustainably in the face of climate change. To achieve...
Read more >
Trees and carbon capture – The Science
July 21, 2021Can trees really help combat climate change, and how? If you’ve ever wondered “what’s the evidence that tree planting targets will work?” watch the recording...
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Our Seasonal Workforce: Health and Safety and Worker Welfare
July 6, 2021Given that the seasonal workers who come to Scotland for work are from various countries and backgrounds, it is important that they feel respected, valued,...
Read more >
Co-operation and Collaboration – The Benefits of Working Together
June 27, 2021The benefits of co-operation are well-evidenced. Co-operation involves farmers and others, working together to achieve a commercial objective, which they cannot achieve independently and individually....
Read more >
Acquiring Land Through Contract or Share Farming Agreements
June 11, 2021In this video in our series looking at advice and guidance for people who want to make a new start with agriculture, we’re talking contract...
Read more >Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Flock Resilience
May 27, 2021While a Brexit trade deal has taken some pressure off the sheep sector the changing political and agricultural landscape means that it must adapt to...
Read more >
Cropcast: Winter cereal disease management
April 30, 2021In this episode of Cropcast we’re talking about winter cereal disease management with Prof Fiona Burnett, Peter Lindsay and Dr Neil Havis.
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The Role of Biostimulants in IPM
April 26, 2021The overriding principle of IPM is to manage the health of a crop holistically, rather than just to focus on individual pests and disease and...
Read more >
Precision solutions to animal health & welfare: episode 1
April 16, 2021Welcome along to our animal health & welfare series of podcasts. Over the course of 2021, we’ll be bringing you 8 podcasts, each falling under...
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Pesticide Information Note: Spray Drift
April 14, 2021Pesticide Information Note: Spray drift Spray drift is a topic that has come under increasing focus as the general public take more interest in pesticides,...
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How Do You Measure IPM?
March 31, 2021The whole point of integrated pest management (IPM) is to work holistically with your farm system to manage the pest, weeds and diseases unique to...
Read more >
Winter Agronomy Digital Roadshows – Business Resilience and Markets
January 25, 2021The Winter Agronomy Roadshows in January for this year will be delivered on-line as a combination of technical lectures, podcasts and interactive discussion sessions. In...
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How to Spot Q Fever and What Action to Take
February 12, 2024The disease Q fever is caused by the bacteria Coxiella Burnetii which can infect cattle, sheep and goats. It can also cause disease in humans,...
Read more >Green Finance
January 24, 2024In this episode of Natural Capital, we are talking about the issue that underpins every topic we cover, and that is finance and funding! With...
Read more >Protecting Atlantic Salmon
January 10, 2024At COP28 the decision was taken by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to reassess the status of Atlantic salmon, moving it from a...
Read more >Thrill of The Hill – Agrecalc Cloud: The Sky’s the Limit
December 21, 2023THRILL OF THE HILL | Carbon and benchmarking carbon are here to stay, firmly embedded in the best practice for the farming community. With COP28...
Read more >Kirsten Williams: Let your determination grow stronger
December 15, 2023Mary-Jane Lawrie is joined by Kirsten Williams. Kirsten is a livestock specialist with SAC Consulting and she also runs a farm business on Ranna Farm...
Read more >Farm Labour shortages, free upskilling events, and a conversation with The Soil Association
August 2, 2023Welcome back to the Rural Round-up hosted by me, Kerry Hammond. This show is produced in association with the Scottish Government. On today’s episode Tiffany,...
Read more >Agribusiness News April 2023 – Input Costs: Seasonal Workers
April 3, 2023Seasonal Worker Sponsor Licences The regulations of Seasonal Worker Sponsor Licences apply to any overseas national that a UK farm wishes to employ if they...
Read more >Nature Based Solutions to Combat Drought and Flooding
March 10, 2023Climate change and increase in drought and flooding Climate change is set to bring on a change in our weather systems, with extreme weather conditions...
Read more >Advertising an Agricultural Job: How to Approach It
March 10, 2023Finding staff to fill agricultural jobs is getting harder and this publication is the third in a series that gives helpful hints and tips on...
Read more >Eye-catching Agricultural Job Adverts: How To Create Them
March 3, 2023In a time where it is getting increasingly harder to recruit staff into the agricultural industry, it is important that you can stand out from...
Read more >Thrill of the Hill 9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon
January 31, 2023Episode #9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon. In this episode we hear from Senior Scientific Lead Rachael Ramsay about the scientific consensus around soil...
Read more >Targeted Selective Treatment in Sheep
October 3, 2022Wormer resistance is becoming an issue on many farms across the country and all farmers should look at options to improve the efficacy of wormers...
Read more >Getting the farm ‘climate ready’
March 17, 2022Farmers and land managers are constantly making business decisions whilst having to factor in and account for various unknowns; fluctuating commodity prices, market trends, changing...
Read more >Alternative Clostridial Vaccines
March 14, 2022There have been lots of supply issues over the last two years and some medicines have been affected. You may have struggled to get hold...
Read more >Integrated Pest Management – Top Tips from High Scoring Farms
February 28, 2022The IPM planning tool for Scottish growers is starting to give useful insights about what high scoring farms do and where they get their information....
Read more >Making Sheep Systems Sustainable: Controlling Liver Fluke
February 4, 2022Daniel Stout speaks with Dr Philip Skuce from Moredun Research Institute about liver fluke in sheep. Resistance to triclabendazole, the only flukicide effective against all...
Read more >Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Sustainable Principles
December 10, 2021Managing Scotland’s landscapes sustainably is what all farmers, crofters and landowners seek to achieve. For years now there has been a steady increase in the...
Read more >Cropcast: Integrated Pest Management
November 25, 2021Integrated pest management (IPM) is a holistic approach to pest management that aims to maximise profit whilst also aiming to minimising the negative impacts of...
Read more >Cropcast: The Journey To Net Zero
November 5, 2021Net Zero is a phrase that we hear all the time, but what does the journey to net zero look like for cropping systems. In...
Read more >Women in Agriculture, Caithness: Confused about Carbon? Let’s Clear the Air!
October 10, 2021So much talk about reducing farm emissions, lowering your carbon footprint, carbon neutral, net zero and how to farm more efficiently…..confused by all this and...
Read more >Sustainable Sheep Systems – Getting on top of lameness
August 28, 2021Agricultural Consultant Daniel Stout speaks with Professor Laura Green OBE about how best to get on top of footrot and reduce lameness in the flock....
Read more >Thrill of The Hill – Farming for 1.5 Degrees
July 21, 2021Farming as with all other industries has been set the challenge of operating more efficiently and sustainably in the face of climate change. To achieve...
Read more >Trees and carbon capture – The Science
July 21, 2021Can trees really help combat climate change, and how? If you’ve ever wondered “what’s the evidence that tree planting targets will work?” watch the recording...
Read more >Our Seasonal Workforce: Health and Safety and Worker Welfare
July 6, 2021Given that the seasonal workers who come to Scotland for work are from various countries and backgrounds, it is important that they feel respected, valued,...
Read more >Co-operation and Collaboration – The Benefits of Working Together
June 27, 2021The benefits of co-operation are well-evidenced. Co-operation involves farmers and others, working together to achieve a commercial objective, which they cannot achieve independently and individually....
Read more >Acquiring Land Through Contract or Share Farming Agreements
June 11, 2021In this video in our series looking at advice and guidance for people who want to make a new start with agriculture, we’re talking contract...
Read more >Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Flock Resilience
May 27, 2021While a Brexit trade deal has taken some pressure off the sheep sector the changing political and agricultural landscape means that it must adapt to...
Read more >Cropcast: Winter cereal disease management
April 30, 2021In this episode of Cropcast we’re talking about winter cereal disease management with Prof Fiona Burnett, Peter Lindsay and Dr Neil Havis.
Read more >The Role of Biostimulants in IPM
April 26, 2021The overriding principle of IPM is to manage the health of a crop holistically, rather than just to focus on individual pests and disease and...
Read more >Precision solutions to animal health & welfare: episode 1
April 16, 2021Welcome along to our animal health & welfare series of podcasts. Over the course of 2021, we’ll be bringing you 8 podcasts, each falling under...
Read more >Pesticide Information Note: Spray Drift
April 14, 2021Pesticide Information Note: Spray drift Spray drift is a topic that has come under increasing focus as the general public take more interest in pesticides,...
Read more >How Do You Measure IPM?
March 31, 2021The whole point of integrated pest management (IPM) is to work holistically with your farm system to manage the pest, weeds and diseases unique to...
Read more >Winter Agronomy Digital Roadshows – Business Resilience and Markets
January 25, 2021The Winter Agronomy Roadshows in January for this year will be delivered on-line as a combination of technical lectures, podcasts and interactive discussion sessions. In...
Read more >