Biodiversity
Video: Helping pollinators on farms and crofts
The crofting areas of the Western Isles, Caithness, Sutherland and the Orkney isles are important for the Great Yellow Bumblebee, our rarest bumblebee. This bee particularly likes red clover and…
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Technical Note (TN721): Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health
TN721 Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health
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Working for Waders: Bringing wading birds back to Scottish farmland
Wading birds are in steep decline. If we don’t act now, iconic species like lapwings and curlews may vanish from our farms. Come and find out what you can do…
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Video: Improving habitats for farmland birds
Agricultural consultant Paul Chapman explains how farmland birds have shown significant population declines in Scotland, and across Europe, since the 1970s. In this video, he visits Hopewell Farm near Tarland…
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Soil Phosphorous Management
Dr Bill Crooks describes a new approach to managing phosphorous in your soil. Low levels of soil phosphorous can be very detrimental to grass and clover in the sward and…
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Video: Getting to know the Muirburn Code
This video highlights key points from the Muirburn Code. A new version of the Muirburn Code was produced for the Scottish Government by Scotland’s Moorland Forum and launched in November…
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Podcast: Muirburn on Common Grazings
This podcast is an interview with Alastair Culbertson Chairman of the Sleat General Grazings. It explores how the group have proactively organised muirburn in their grazings. This is to reduce…
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Case Study: Balancing the needs of cattle and corn buntings in Aberdeenshire
Case Study: Balancing the needs of cattle and corn buntings in Aberdeenshire
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The multiple benefits of water margins on an upland farm
At least 2 km of watercourse have been fenced off as part of the agri-environmental management at SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre Farms. Dr. John Holland an Upland Ecologist who’s been…
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The benefits of wader scrapes in an upland farm
Dr. John Holland, an Upland Ecologist shows Prof Davy McCracken the wader scrapes that have been created as part of a SRDP AECS contract at Kirkton & Auchtertyre Farms.
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