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Growing cut flowers in Skye
Janette Sutherland SAC Portree interviews Catherine Matheson, Flùraichean le Gaol, Skye. Flùraichean le Gaol means flowers with love in Gaelic and Catherine discusses growing cut flowers in Skye, starting a…
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Women in Agriculture, Borders: Selling Carbon and Creating Woodland (webinar)
Carbon sales from woodland are rapidly becoming a valuable source of income for farmers. Given that sales can be combined with existing FGS grant support, carbon sales are now being…
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Recording wildlife on your farm or croft
As farmers and crofters the natural world is our office, but have you taken stock of the biodiversity on your land? In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, Scotland’s landscape…
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Agribusiness News September 2021
The September 2021 edition of Agribusiness News is now available to download. As well as the regular monthly articles on policy, cereals, beef, potatoes, sheep and milk, this month we…
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Pesticides – Sprayer filling and washing areas (podcast)
The focus of this episode is pesticide filling and handling areas – the pollution risks, the legislation, design considerations and the safe disposal of pesticide solutions. Agricultural Consultant George Chalmers…
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Cropcast: Potato blight management
Cropcast continues. This month Prof Fiona Burnett, Dr Philip Burgess and Dr Ruairidh Bain talk about potato blight management.
Read More >Pesticide Information Note: Buffer Zones
This Pesticide Information Note looks at Buffer Zones areas that are used to help protect water environments when applying pesticides.
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Agribusiness News August 2021
The August 2021 edition of Agribusiness News is now available to download and read on the FAS website. As well as the regular monthly articles on policy, cereals, beef, potatoes,…
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