Publications

The culmination of a year’s hard work, the sheep sales in the autumn are an exciting time. But they are not the only option for your croft produce. Aoife and…

Autumn tasks include tagging your lambs and vaccinating them against clostridial diseases. Watch Aoife, Jake, and their team of helpers work together to carry this out. Further information: Top 10…

A quad bike has become a ubiquitous part of crofting and farming life. However, in the wrong hands can be a danger to yourself and others. Follow along with Aoife…

Taking on a new croft, one of the first jobs will be to assess what the ground is like, what it is capable of, and how to get there. This…

Tupping time is the start of the sheep year, and your management now can have a big impact of the success of the business for the rest of the year.…

Pet lambs are unfortunately a likely occurrence for one reason or another during lambing time. Looked after well, these lambs can go on to match the performance of their naturally…

  Do you know what the temperature of a normal healthy lamb is?* Dealing with chilled lambs can be a regular occurrence if you are lambing outside and the weather…

Join us as we follow new entrant crofters Aoife Gould and Jake Sayles through a year on their croft near Edinbane in the north of the Isle of Skye. Find…

A KPI tool has been developed that will allow farmers and crofters to input data they have already available to them in order to benchmark their farming enterprises and make…