Podcast Publications
Podcast: Woodlands Maintenance
In this podcast, Forestry Consultant Ben Law discusses woodland maintenance with Eric Boyd, a forestry contractor with over 42 years of experience in planting and maintaining Scotland’s trees. Topics discussed…
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Nutrient Strategy – Compost
For further detail on soil organic matter & composting please visit the Farm Advisory Service’s Kerchesters Farm webpage. In this episode George Gauley is joined by Jim McFarlane from Edrington…
Read More >Supporting Agriculture in Scotland Post-Brexit
In this podcast SAC Principal Consultant Chloe McCulloch talks to Davy McCracken, Head of SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, about the challenges and opportunities facing Scottish agricultural policy-development post-Brexit.…
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Converting to Organics – David Younie
In this podcast Malcolm Macdonald spoke to retired SAC consultant David Younie. David was SAC Consulting’s senior organic consultant and at the forefront of providing advice to farmers who were…
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Hedges – Cultivating Cutting and Carbon Capture
As linear landscape features, hedges bring with them an array of benefits, whether it is in the context of climate change, biodiversity decline or improved productivity. However, these benefits are…
Read More >AgriScot Across The Airwaves
2020 has been a year that has seen all industries and sectors within agriculture have to adapt to a new normal, and this has extended to shows and large events.…
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Helping Farmers Adapt to Climate Change – Beef Specialist Robert Ramsay
In this episode, we speak to beef specialist Robert Ramsey about the practicalities of adapting agriculture to climate change. Focussing on livestock systems we look at the challenges livestock farmers…
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