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Valuing Your Soils – Practical Guidance for Scottish Farmers

Making Tax Digital

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) intend to make the UK one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world through Making Tax Digital (MTD). The benefit of…

A water extraction point in a watercourse. There are a lot of river stones that can be seen from which the watercourse appears from. The abstraction point is below the river stones.

Alternative Watering episode 1 – Papa pump

Alternative Watering episode 2 – Solar and pasture pumps

Alternative Watering episode 3 – RAM pump

Case Study: Hardens Farm – Using a RAM pump to provide alternative watering for grazing livestock

Case Study: Hardens Farm – Using a RAM pump to provide alternative watering to grazing cattle

John Anderson farms at Hardens Farm which lies within the Lower Tweed Priority Catchment. The farm steading is located at 200 m above sea level, has a weak main supply with fields that rise to 300 m which are located a distance of 900 m from the steading in two different directions. In order to provide an alternative watering source for grazing cattle, John installed a RAM pump system.