Livestock
QMS Banff & Buchan Monitor Farm Summer Open Day 2024
Bruce Irvine, the Banff & Buchan Monitor Farm is discovering the benefits of planning to drive profitability; at Sauchentree it’s a combination of improved outputs that comes from being prepared…
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QMS Strathspey Monitor Farm Summer Open Meet
For many years, Auchernack Farm at Grantown-on-Spey has been demonstrating how red meat production and nature can go hand in hand on a typical Highland farm. The Smith family continues…
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Simplifying Systems South
Post-lambing and calving can be the ideal time to reflect on what worked well and what didn’t on your farm to design an improved system for the future. Join us…
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Simplifying Systems North
Post-lambing and calving can be the ideal time to reflect on what worked well and what didn’t on your farm to design an improved system for the future. Join us…
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Rush Control for Grassland Productivity – An Ayrshire Case Study
Rushes are a common sight across grassland farms and whilst small areas of rushes can provide welcome shelter at lambing and calving time they are largely an invasive weed which…
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Agribusiness News April 2024 – Beef
Weekly Price Drop for Finished Cattle After slipping back weekly throughout March, at the time of writing (late March) finished cattle prices are sitting at 506p/kg/dwt (for R4L (Scottish steers). …
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Agribusiness News April 2024 – Sheep
Continental flock continues to decline Drought in the Mediterranean countries, coupled with low forage availability and disease pressures from midge born viruses – Bluetongue and Schmallenburg are all attributes contributing…
Read More >Working Towards Net Zero Carbon at Gaindykehead Farm
This article originally appeared on the Farming For A Better Climate website John Brown and his family have been farming at Gaindykehead Farm near Airdrie in North Lanarkshire for many…
Read More >Working Towards Net Zero Carbon at Cloffrickford Farm
This article originally appeared on the Farming For A Better Climate website David Smith farms 800 acres of Grade 3B land in Aberdeenshire. Cloffrickland Farm supports 140 suckler cows and their…
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Working Towards Net Zero Carbon at Auchmore Farm
This article originally appeared on the Farming For A Better Climate website Auchmore Farm, run by Stephen and Sheena Mackenzie in partnership with Stephen’s brother Donald, is a hill farm…
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