Climate Change
Technical note (TN728): Planning Agricultural Field Drainage
Planning agricultural field drainage requires a detailed investigation to obtain the best results. Depending on the site, there could be more than one drainage issue causing the drainage problem. As…
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Peat and Diesel
(Guest post – North Talisker is a Common Grazing with a Sheep Stock Club and Hydro Company on the West Coast of the Isle of Skye and our blog is…
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Women in Agriculture: Borders – Climate Crisis Challenges and Solutions
• Are you interested in understanding more about the current carbon crisis and helping to develop positive solutions? In recent months agriculture has received much scrutiny, relating to its role…
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South West Dairy Focus Group – Learning from neighbours
The next meeting of the South West Dairy Focus Group is a day trip to Northern Ireland to see how our neighbours are adapting to climate change. Attendance on this…
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Rainwater Harvesting – Making the most of Scotland’s bumper crop (Video)
Rainwater is something we aren’t short of Scotland and in this video, we visit two sites where rainwater harvesting systems have allowed the businesses to make considerable savings.
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Adapting To A Changing Climate In the Livestock Sector – Grantown-On-Spey
Climate change and extreme weather events have become one of the major challenges currently faced by the livestock sector. This event will bring together a selection of speakers who will…
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Habitat Linkage and Carbon Sinkage
Acting as wildlife corridors across a farm, hedgerows provide a relatively safe area for different bird, mammal and insect species to traverse the landscape.
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Resilience for the Future: Islay
We live in a time of constant change, with challenges such as Brexit, climate change, changing social trends and market fluctuations. Are you worried about the future? Can you and…
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Adapting to Climate Change – Stranraer
FACT – Climate Change will affect how you farm! Whether you are a believer or not the Climate Change discussion is here to stay and will affect your farming practices…
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Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network – Final meeting: Establishing & Managing a Spring Grass Ley
Effective resource and nutrient management is not only a smart way of demonstrating this but is also important for creating resilient, efficient and profitable businesses. With farming coming under increasing…
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