Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is delighted to announce a series of "Meat the Market" workshops designed to provide farmers with essential knowledge on carcass grading, market specifications, and customer requirements. These workshops will take place at leading...
As pupils across Scotland head back to the classroom this month, they're in for an extra treat - Scotch Beef, Scotch Lamb, and Specially Selected Pork are returning to the curriculum with the 2024 Meat Voucher Scheme, run by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS). Last year, the...
A Highlands doctor is combining her passion for farming and health by playing a key role in the growth of an exciting Health Hut initiative aimed at improving the wellbeing of people in Scotland’s agricultural community. The Health Hut initiative brings health and...
Sheep producers are being urged to check their ewes’ Body Condition Score (BCS) now and to take action to ensure they are at BCS 3-3.5 before tupping, or 2.5 in a hill flock. The advice comes from Ali Haggerty, a vet with Stewartry Veterinary Centre, who warns that...
Commenting on The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology study launched today by the University of Cambridge, Dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton said: “This study – which is mostly based on non-UK populations – doesn’t tell us anything about what causes type 2 diabetes because it...
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has announced a series of upcoming drop-in clinics across key livestock marts across Scotland, providing an invaluable opportunity for stakeholders to engage directly with the QMS team. These visits are designed to offer farmers,...
Robbie Newlands lives and farms by one rule – simplicity. Based on 1,100 acres (445ha) near the town of Forres in Moray, Cluny Farm is home to Robbie and his wife Kirsty. Keen to make more data-led decisions on his finishing stock, Robbie installed the Stockman - an...
For many, autumn 2023 will be remembered as the year black-grass gained the upper hand. But for Somerset grower, Mark Doble, it marked the end of an eight-year battle with the grassweed. Mark farms 160ha in Illminster. He grows winter wheat, oilseed rape, winter...
Quality Meat Scotland’s (QMS’s) newly established Community Marketing Fund – a £50,000 resource aiming to support initiatives that promote our red meat brands within industry and across communities in Scotland - was a driving force behind a successful fundraising...
As she enters her final term as a Director of the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) fruit and hop grower Ali Capper says nostalgia about agriculture needs to be left at the farm gate and replaced with a more businesslike mindset. She has also broadly welcomed the new...