Farming Challenges [SS.FC]

Eye-catching Agricultural Job Adverts: How To Create Them

In a time where it is getting increasingly harder to recruit staff into the agricultural industry, it is important that you can stand out from the crowd with any job…

Thrill of the Hill 9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon

Episode #9 – Digging Deep on Soil Carbon. In this episode we hear from Senior Scientific Lead Rachael Ramsay about the scientific consensus around soil carbon, its impact on farm…

Targeted Selective Treatment in Sheep

Wormer resistance is becoming an issue on many farms across the country and all farmers should look at options to improve the efficacy of wormers in their systems. Targeted Selective…

Sourcing Labour – Making Your Farm an Attractive Place to Work

Sourcing labour for farms is becoming an increasing struggle and to assist with this the Farm Advisory Service will host a series of 2 webinars with Greenburn HR on the…

A collage of three photos depicting severe weather from climate change - drought as shown by cracked earth and struggling plants, flooding with deep water lying on a road behind a 'flood' warning sign and storminess as shown by a windblown tree with damaged trunk.

Getting the farm ‘climate ready’

Farmers and land managers are constantly making business decisions whilst having to factor in and account for various unknowns; fluctuating commodity prices, market trends, changing regulations and new schemes are…

Alternative Clostridial Vaccines

There have been lots of supply issues over the last two years and some medicines have been affected. You may have struggled to get hold of the products you usually…

Integrated Pest Management – Top Tips from High Scoring Farms

The IPM planning tool for Scottish growers is starting to give useful insights about what high scoring farms do and where they get their information. Filing in an Integrated Pest Management plan is now standard practice on most arable farms and is a useful tool to explore what can be done on individual farms to increase IPM practices. IPM plans are also being picked up across mixed and grassland farms too. Almost 5000 arable plans have been completed to date for arable farms and nearly 300 for grassland plans – just launched at the end for 2021. Average scores for arable farms are 64.8% and for grassland farms 56.9%. This provides really positive evidence about what the farming industry is already doing to produce crops in integrated and sustainable ways.