Climate Change
Practical Guide: Improving Ewe Efficiency (1)
This Practical Guide looks at benchmarks to assess flock efficiency. Additional guides in this series focus on maximising performance both pre and post lambing.
Read More >QMS – Ewe nutrition and body condition scoring timeline
A visual guide to ewe condition pre and post lambing.
Read More >Year Round Feeding the Ewe for Lifetime Production
Improved prices and better prospects for British lamb have lifted the industry and added value to any technical efficiency. The key to more and better lambs per ewe is proper feeding. We now know that proper nutrition, from as early in life as an embryo or even and egg, can affect a sheep’s lifetime performance.
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Practical Guide: Farm woodlands for shelter
Practical Guide: Farm woodlands for shelter
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Practical Guide: Farm woodlands and carbon
Practical Guide: Farm woodlands and carbon
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Integrated Crop Management & New Technologies Roadshow: Inverness – Event summary
Integrated Crop Management & Control of Pests The evening event was held at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium to update farmers on Crop and Soil Research. Professor Bryan Griffiths, soil scientist and…
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Resilience Planning for your Cattle Herd (Balivanich) – Event Summary
Calving Season Approaching With calving on the horizon crofters in Uist met to discuss a number of topical issues for their cattle herd. SAC vet Franz Brulisauer was the main…
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Rationing The Suckler Cow For Improved Efficiency
At a recent FAS event at Barony College, Dumfries, farmers saw that by improving suckler cow nutrition they can improve efficiency in many aspects of their business including animal welfare,…
Read More >Funding for Woodland Creation & Woodland Management presentation slides from Ayrshire meeting
Presentation slides about funding for woodland creation & management from the Ayrshire ‘Winning the battle against rushes in upland systems’ October meeting.
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