Publications

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…

Both tenant and owner-occupier crofters have duties they must comply with, by law. If crofters fail in these duties, then the Crofting Commission has the power to terminate a tenancy…

The surge in crofters and smallholders interest in growing fruit and vegetables as well as an elevated demand for locally sourced foods by current consumers has meant an identification of…

Listen to our latest podcast interview with Mark Foxwell, a successful crofter based in Sutherland who applied for business development support through FAS to improve his crofting business. Mark and…

In this episode Alex Pirie chats to agricultural and crofting consultant, Janette Sutherland (SAC), about a range of topics and issues, including the lessons conventional farms can take from crofting,…

In the eleventh episode of the Thrill of the Hill podcast series, agricultural consultant Alex Pirie talks to Dr Bill Crooks (SAC), about the current state of Scotland’s soils, the…