2022 Publications
Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Multi-species Sward Selection
In this video, Emily Grant runs us through the different species of grasses, legumes and herbs she has included in their multi-species swards at Coldrochie. Each species brings a different…
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Species-rich Grassland at Old Leckie
In this video, Fergus Younger of Old Leckie Farm and Sandra Stewart of Farming and Conservation discuss the multitude of benefits that species-rich grassland has brought for biodiversity at Old…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Grazing Strategies
Equally important to both profit and biodiversity as pasture composition, is the way in which we graze the pasture with livestock. Grazing duration, intensity and rest impacts profit drivers (pasture…
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Stock Talk: Livestock Worrying – Keeping yourself right with The Sheep Game
In this podcast we will hear from Cameron Wilson from The Sheep Game. Cameron Wilson was a policeman for many years before going full-time in agriculture, between sheep pregnancy scanning,…
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Maximising the Nature Value of Hedges at Old Leckie
In this video, Fergus Younger of Old Leckie Farm and Sandra Stewart of Farming and Conservation discuss the multitude of benefits hedge planting has brought to Old Leckie. They also…
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Sammi Kinghorn – Thriving Through Adversity, and Promoting Diversity
Mary-Jane Lawrie is joined this week by Sammi Kinghorn MBE. Sammi is a farmer’s daughter and Team GB wheelchair racer from the Scottish Borders. We spoke the week after she…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity at Peelham
In this video, Denise and Angus Walton discuss how developing a rotational grazing system combined with deferred grazing for cattle wintering has seen a multitude of benefits for both farm…
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Advertising for Applicants to the Agricultural World
Hear from Greenburn HR on the topic of Advertising for Applicants to farming jobs. Sourcing labour is becoming increasingly hard so check out this webinar recording to see if there…
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Thrill of the Hill – Virtually Stockproof
Thrill of the Hill is back! Season 3 #6 – Virtually Stockproof. In this episode we hear from SAC Consulting’s Malcolm Macdonald & Robert Ramsay about the increasing opportunities for…
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Rural Roundup – 19th October
In this fortnight’s edition we get the latest news from Tiffany MacTaggart, and are joined by George Chalmers and Robert Ramsay to talk about soils and fertilisers. Janette Sutherland is…
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