2020 Publications
Pesticides – Sprayer filling and washing areas (podcast)
The focus of this episode is pesticide filling and handling areas – the pollution risks, the legislation, design considerations and the safe disposal of pesticide…
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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…
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Cattle EID – Making It Work For You (UHF Tags)
In 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)
In 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)
In 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)
In 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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Final meeting of the Orkney Soil & Nutrient Network: What’s in your soil?
This webinar was the third and final meeting of the Orkney Soil & Nutrient Network (broadcast 15/12/2020) and for this meeting, the focus was on…
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Letting a Croft
In this short video we explain why and how to let a croft, which differs from sublets and assignations. Owner occupier crofters, and landlords, might…
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