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New Entrants with Added Value – Morton’s Milk

Morton’s Milk is a family business based at Auchinbay Farm in Ayrshire. David and Gillian Morton farm 500 acres milking 320 Holstein cows and store 120 Belgian Blue cross-dairy cattle.…

Reducing Labour at Lambing

3 November 2021
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The lambing period can be extremely labour intensive. In this video we provide some simple, low cost tips to ‘tweak’ the system to reduce labour and now is the time…

Agribusiness News November 2021

The November 2021 COP 26 edition of Agribusiness News is now available to.  This months along with the regular monthly articles on policy, cereals, beef, sheep and milk, this month…

Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Working for Waders

In this episode of the Thrill of The Hill podcast, host Alex Pirie chats to Patrick Laurie from Working For Waders.  They discuss the decline of waders in Scotland, the…

Get Cracking with Egg Selling! (webinar)

28 October 2021
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Healthy hens are paramount to getting eggs and Caroline Robinson an SRUC vet will cover types of hens, the egg production cycle and keeping hens. Calum Cruickshank presentation about egg…

Podcast: Thrill of The Hill – Nature Friendly Farming Network

In the shadow of COP26 Scotland prepares to host the world as we agree common targets and policies to combat climate change, equally important is the biodiversity crisis. In episode…

More To Sheep Than Meat (webinar)

14 October 2021
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Meat is the primary product for the majority of sheep farmers and crofters, however not everyone breeds and keeps sheep for meat. In this webinar, we hear from a panel…

Thrill of The Hill – Heather Management

Scotland is host to the largest concentration of heather moorland in the world with huge biodiversity interest and carbon holding potential. In this sixteenth episode of the Thrill of the…

Opening The Door To Outdoor Lambing (webinar)

10 October 2021
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In this webinar, Sean Cursiter of Laga Farm will discuss how they have set up a new flock dedicated to outdoor lambing and how they have developed the system to…



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