2025 Publications
Thrill of The Hill – Beyond the Hedgerow: Biodiversity Auditing in Scotland
Biodiversity auditing has become part of the Scottish Governments Whole Farm Plan and discussions around nature conservation are becoming commonplace around the farm table. In today’s episode Alex is joined…
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Rural Roundup – Planning for Autumn
Welcome back to the Rural Round-up. On today’s episode George Chalmers and Tiffany Stephenson discuss Bluetongue, updates to greening guidance for 2027 and updates to the Future Farming Investment Scheme…
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CropCast – Using Insects to make Fertiliser
In this episode Tiffany is joined by Arthy Surendran a Lecturer from Queens University Belfast to discuss her post-doctoral research, which looks at feeding food waste to insects with the…
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Agri Culture – Livestock FarmHER Creating Content: Nicola Wordie
You are listening to Agri Culture, a podcast that aims to explore the stories of the people that make up our agricultural industry and culture of farming, in Scotland and…
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Business & Policy News August 2026: Policy, cereal, beef, sheep and milk updates and a spotlight on the pig sector
Along with our regular monthly updates on policy, cereals, beef, sheep and milk, in this edition we also have a spotlight on the pig sector. Show Notes: 00:34 News…
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Stock Talk – Venison Market Outlook & Tullynessle Deer Farm
Welcome to Stock Talk. In this episode James is joined by Dick Playfair from the Venison Advisory Service and Janet Keith from Tullynessle Deer Farm. Dick gives us a market…
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Natural Capital – Scottish Agroecological Partnership
In this episode, we’re joined by Abi Mordin from Propagate and Colleen McCulloch from the Soil Association to explore the work of the Scottish Agroecological Partnership (SAP), a collaboration of…
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Crofting Matters – Shetland, From Land to the Sea
Hello and welcome to Crofting Matters, hosted by Osla Jamwal Fraser where we discuss topics that matter in crofting. Over the next few episodes, we will be bringing you Crofting…
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CropCast – Field to Fork with Kettle Produce
Field to Fork with Kettle Produce: in this episode Mark is joined by Finlay Ross (Crop Manager) and Andrew Orr (Head of Agriculture) from Kettle Produce Ltd. Kettle Produce are…
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Thrill of The Hill – Beef, Business and Beyond
The beef industry in Scotland is resilient and adaptable, whether it’s changing markets and cost of production pressures, policy developments or the new entrant bottleneck. To help us navigate these…
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