The World Around You [SS.FH.WAY]

Marketing the Crop – Getting the Best Outcome for Your Crop

This year’s harvest has been both rapid and relatively cheap in terms of drying costs; all good news. The downside however is that stores will have been filled quickly and…

Writing A Marketing Plan

A marketing plan is an operational document that outlines the marketing activity that a business plans to implement to generate leads and reach its target market.

Supplying The Buyers Fact Sheet

This factsheet aims to highlight what buyers of cattle and sheep are looking for in the animals coming from farms in the West Coast of Scotland.

An Introduction to Buying Groups – Formal and Informal

Purchasing agricultural inputs and equipment is a significant outlay for most crofters and farmers. Every purchasing decision needs careful consideration on the basis of not only quantity, quality and price…

The Different Types of Co-ops and Collaboration (webinar)

The benefits of co-operation are well-evidenced. Co-operation involves farmers and others, working together to achieve a commercial objective, which they cannot achieve independently and individually. Through co-operation, members help themselves,…

Webinar: Opportunities in the Halal Sector for Farmers

Halal consumers eat more meat per capita than the remainder of the population and despite accounting for just 5% of the English population consume approximately 20% of all lamb produced…

Grain Contracts – making them work for you.

Well sown, half grown is an adage often used when discussing crops but growing a good crop is only part of the job. Looking after the marketing, optimising financial returns,…

Supplying the Buyers (webinar)

Do you know what the buyers want to see in your store cattle and lambs? Selling your livestock is an important part of your business and knowing what your buyer…

Winter Agronomy Digital Roadshows – Business Resilience and Markets

Arable businesses are seeking ways to improve their resilience what-ever the future brings. The uncertainty of an EU-UK trade deal may now be behind us but in this event we…

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