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Women in Agriculture: Case Study – Jo Wallace
Jo Wallace is a vet and owns Machers Veterinary Services, Wigtownshire. Together, with husband Wylie and three young children, they farm the 300 acre Whitehalls Farm in Sorbie, and run…
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Women in Agriculture: Case Study – Fiona Smith
Fiona Smith farms Westerton of Pittarrow and Cairnton Farm with her father and hard-working staff. Together they farm 850 acres with barley and wheat, potatoes and daffodils/bulbs. They run a…
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Managing Costs and Protecting Financial Health in the Dairy Herd: Protecting your Financial Health
COVID-19 has brought with it a huge amount of uncertainty to the dairy industry, and while it may seem that the factors impacting on dairy businesses are out with your…
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Managing Costs and Protecting Financial Health in the Dairy Herd: Where to make savings?
The biggest expense on the dairy farm is by far feed, followed by labour, depreciation and supplies (in no particular order as this may vary from farm to farm). Many…
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Emergency planning (advertorial)
In the Scottish Farmer published, 4th April 2020, we published the advertorial below to promote our emergency plan that farmers and crofters can use to as a tool to help…
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Women in Agriculture: Case Study – Helen McColm
Find out what it took to stop Helen describing herself as ‘just’ a farmer’s wife…
Read More >Staying Safe on Line Webinar – Wed, 18 March 7:30-8:30 pm
Digital technology helps farming businesses to become more efficient and virtually every farmer will use at least one online service to run their business whether it’s on line banking, digital…
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The Cloud (podcast)
Ask any farmer about ‘the cloud’ and very often the response is that they don’t really understand it, nor do they use it. However the reality is very different –…
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