Podcast Publications
Managing People – Part 1: John Kerr & John Sinclair
The Managing People podcast is part of a toolkit of publications to assist farmers and managers in managing people within their business. In the first of this two part series…
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New Entrant Case Study – Laura Hinnekens
A real success story, Laura Hinnekens took the bold decision to move to Scotland from Belgium to follow her dream of farming, starting with only a few hundred pounds in…
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Improve your social media presence- Harriet Busby – Border berries
In this episode George Gauley is joined by Harriet Busby from Border berries. Border berries is a thriving farm business, located near St Boswells in the Scottish borders. Harriets’ family…
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Planning Feed Supplies for the Winter
Malcolm MacDonald spoke to nutritionists Karen Stewart and Mary Young along with beef specialist Robert Ramsay about planning feed supplies for the winter. Karen, Mary and Robert give us a…
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Rotational Grazing: A Discussion
This year, four farmers from across Scotland have been documenting their experience using rotational grazing methods on video. You can follow the whole series on our YouTube channel here. For…
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Positive PR – an interview with Claire Pollock from Ardross Farm
Kerry Allison, Senior Marketing Consultant with SAC discusses PR (public relations) with a Food PR Agent, an Agricultural PR firm, and farm businesses who is rocking their PR opportunities. In…
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Positive PR – An Interview with Jane Craigie
Kerry Allison, Senior Marketing Consultant with SAC discusses PR (public relations) with a Food PR Agent, an Agricultural PR firm, and farm businesses who is rocking their PR opportunities. In…
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Positive PR – an interview with Martha Bryce
Kerry Allison, Senior Marketing Consultant with SAC discusses PR (public relations) with a Food PR Agent, an Agricultural PR firm, and farm businesses who is rocking their PR opportunities.…
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So You Want To Cover Your Slurry Store
Seamus Donnelly discusses the wider financial and environmental benefits and speaks to Simon Jones (Genap) about choosing Tensioned versus Floating Covers for Ringed Tanks ,Jason Smyth (Linton and Robinson) about…
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Effective Fluke Control in Sheep: A conversation with Andrew Bailie
In this episode Hazel Laughton speaks with Andrew Baillie who farms at Carstairs Mains in Lanarkshire. Andrew shares his experience of suffering a substantial loss in productivity as a direct…
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