Business Tools
How a carbon audit can help your farming business stay competitive
As part of its 2018-2032 Climate Change Plan, the Scottish Government has committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across Scotland by 75% by 2030. Reducing GHG emissions in the…
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What’s Stopping You? – Barbara Girvan
Barbara Girvan’s enthusiasm shines through as she describes her recent new enterprise of a pumpkin patch in the Highlands, providing entertainment for school holidays and raising funds for charity. Her…
Read More >Supporting Agriculture in Scotland Post-Brexit
In this podcast SAC Principal Consultant Chloe McCulloch talks to Davy McCracken, Head of SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, about the challenges and opportunities facing Scottish agricultural policy-development post-Brexit.…
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Meeting Market Demand – Net Zero Arran
Building resilient businesses and identifying the weaknesses within your business is crucial as Scotland moves into a period of great uncertainty. At a time when farmers are being asked to…
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Turning Livestock Record Data in useful information
All businesses must strive to become more efficient. This means making better use data that you have on the farm, whether it be soil data, crop data or livestock data.…
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What’s Stopping You – Jen Craig
What’s stopping You? In this podcast Jen Craig farmer @sheepfarmer782, NSA Scotland Chairwoman and NFUS Clydesdale branch Chairwoman tells us about her journey getting involved with Agri-Politics. We discuss her…
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Social Media for Small Scale Producers
SAC Consultant Ashleigh Forster chats to Carianne MacDonald of Ardbhan Highland Cattle, North Uist and crofter Donald Macsween of Air An Lot, Lewis. Carianne and Donald both use social media…
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Managing People – Part 2: Michael Bayne & Bill Smith
The Managing People podcast is part of a toolkit of publications to assist farmers and managers in managing people within their business. In the final episode of the two part…
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VLOG – Crofting Improvements
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…
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KPI Tool
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…
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