Rural Business
Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers: John Sinclair
John Sinclair owns and runs Craigies Farm Shop just outside Edinburgh. It’s a family run business with pick your own fruit and veg as well as the shop and café. …
Read More >Brexit & the Pig Sector
At the start of the year, Brexit was very much in the limelight with much being made of the short timescale for both the UK government and the EU to…
Read More >Webinar: Tax Basics For New Entrants
We don’t need to be experts, but it is important that when starting a new business, as either a sole trader or partnership, we have a basic understanding…
Read More >Combine Settings in a Bad Skinning Year for Malting Barley
With the malting barley harvest now underway, it is being reported that skinned grain levels are higher than normal in grain samples. This can lead to deductions or worse costly rejections with…
Read More >Starting A Farming Business And Growing Crops For The First Time – A Conversation with Patrick Laurie
Patrick Laurie, Galloway based author of ‘Native’ speaks to Janette Sutherland in Skye about his book. They discuss his starting a farming business and growing crops for the first time. …
Read More >AgriBusiness News September 2020
The September 2020 edition of Agribusiness News is now available to download and read. Along with the regular monthly articles on policy, cereals, beef, potatoes, sheep and milk, this month…
Read More >Grain sampling during COVID restrictions
Many grain merchants provide an on-farm grain sampling service to their clients in order to gauge the quality and suitability of grain lots. This is extremely important in the case of malting barley…
Read More >Podcast – New Entrants: Andrew Prentice
Andrew Prentice and his family, overcame the new entrant hurdle of sourcing land by moving to the Isle of Iona to continue their farming journey. Listen to this very inspiring…
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