2020 Publications
Forages and Feeds: Assessing Your Forage – Part 1
This video is the second in our winter feed planning series covering assessing your forage stocks and their quality, as well as what to do if you are short. Mary…
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Forages and Feeds: Assessing Forage Stocks
This video is the first in our winter feed planning series covering assessing your forage stocks and their quality, as well as what to do if you are short Karen…
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Weaned calves looking great at Oakwood Mill
Giles Henry at Oakwood Mill, Scottish Borders Two days after weaning and the calves are looking settled and enjoying their fresh allocation of grass.
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Grazing Vlogs: Weaning management at Scholland farm
Jamie Leslie, Scholland Farm, Shetland Jamie uses QuietWean nose flaps to help ease the weaning stress. His calves average 300kg and the cows are averaging body condition score 4 –…
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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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Building A Brand Factsheet
We ran a series of webinars in 2020 regarding building a brand. This information note summarises the key messages from these webinars
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Going to Market – Managing your stock in preparation for selling
Knowing how to manage your stock ahead of going to market is key to obtaining the best returns. Vicky Warcup from Farmstock gives an overview on the specifications for different…
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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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