Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is hosting two open days at award-winning farms for farmers and crofters to learn about practices aimed at improving profitability and efficiency while also reducing carbon emissions. The first event will be held in July in the Lammermuir...
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Part of the heard: new podcast series talks farm business
Delving into crucial topics impacting UK farming businesses is the focus of a new podcast series launched this month by AgriScot. Talking Business is a short six-episode series to build on some of the valuable business insights enjoyed at the UK’s largest indoor farm...
Scottish foodservice to benefit from Scotch Beef Club relaunch
Foodservice businesses in Scotland can now take advantage of marketing and technical support opportunities offered by the Scotch Beef Club, relaunched this week by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS). The Scotch Beef Club invited an audience of leading foodservice...
Digging deep: Thousands go back to their roots to attend farming’s festival Groundswell
From understated boutique gatherings celebrating our love of everything from food to flowers to full-on experiences like Glastonbury, summer events and festivals are firmly ingrained into the British way of life. When the Cherry farming family launched the Groundswell...
Quality Meat Scotland will be all over The Show
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is set to make a significant impact at The Royal Highland Show, running from June 20-23 at Ingliston. The event showcases the very best of the country’s produce, livestock and producers and is the perfect platform for QMS to demonstrate how...
All change: The new chair of the Oxford Farming Conference admits to “encouraging food production at any cost” when he was a young agronomist. Geoff Sansome reflects on the changing face of farming – and finding opportunity from it…
When Geoff Sansome takes to the stage as chair of the 2025 Oxford Farming Conference it will be 31 years since he first attended the event. He clearly remembers first setting foot into the hallowed halls of the famous university buildings; it was 1994 and he was...
Book now for South Ayrshire Monitor Farm meeting on key hill farm topics
There’s a focus on hill farming and contending with the changing farming climate at the summer open meeting of the South Ayrshire Monitor Farm. Bookings are now open for the meeting at Blair Farm, Crosshill, Maybole, on Wednesday 26 June at 3pm, when Monitor Farmers...
Winning idea: Success of last year’s inaugural Scottish Agriculture Awards sees the glittering occasion return in 2024
Farming and rural industries are onto a winner following the announcement that the Scottish Agriculture Awards are to make a return to the stage this year. Last year’s inaugural awards event, organised in a collaboration between AgriScot, the Royal Highland...
Udderly Amazing: Tracey no longer carries the weight of the world on her shoulders
Being active is one of the Five Steps to Wellbeing that form the cornerstones of Farmstrong Scotland. We meet a dairy industry stalwart who has lifted her way to a glass (of milk, of course) half full outlook on life... Tracey Roan is in many ways a modern...
FAST cultivates support at Holyrood for Scotland’s agriculture supply chain
Earlier this week (Wednesday 22 May) leading figures in agriculture, primary food production and land management in Scotland came together with MSPs at Holyrood at a parliamentary reception sponsored by Elena Whitham MSP. The reception, attended by more than 130...