Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is driving efforts to safeguard Scotland's pig industry against the threat of African Swine Fever (ASF). Striving to stay ahead of this highly transmissible disease, the organisation has deployed various strategies, including participation...
Acclaimed Scottish bar and restaurant group Buzzworks Holdings has become the first group member of Quality Meat Scotland’s (QMS) revitalised Scotch Beef Club. Buzzworks venues across the Central Belt and West of Scotland, including its Scotts and Lido restaurants,...
Acclaimed Scottish bar and restaurant group Buzzworks Holdings has become the first group member of Quality Meat Scotland’s (QMS) revitalised Scotch Beef Club. Buzzworks venues across the Central Belt and West of Scotland, including its Scotts and Lido restaurants,...
This year the growing season for spring barley has been greatly reduced, with many crops only recently drilled and so when established these crops will rattle through their growth stages. A recent BASF event with experts from both the UK and Ireland gave growers...
Getting the conference off on the right foot: Cattle hoof trimmer with over six million social media followers named as star speaker Professional cattle hoof trimmer Graeme Parker - renowned globally as “The Hoof GP” - has been announced as the person who will open...
Favourite television presenter announced as host of a new podcast series for Farmstrong Scotland Most people know Sarah Stephen from her work as a television presenter. Not everyone will be aware that Sarah - who many still refer to by her maiden name Sarah Mack –...
Scotland is arguably one of the best places in the world to grow barley, but that’s not the only reason whisky distillers – and brewers - choose it for production, says Peter Nelson, Operations Director at The Glenmorangie Company. “Malting barley grown in Scotland is...
Living well in order to be able to farm and croft well is one of the key Farmstrong Scotland messages. We meet the crofters who are reaping the benefits of finding some time for themselves … It took start-up crofters Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer six hard years before...
Scotland is arguably one of the best places in the world to grow barley, but that’s not the only reason whisky distillers – and brewers - choose it for production, says Peter Nelson, Operations Director at The Glenmorangie Company. “Malting barley grown in Scotland is...
Countries encompassing the alphabet - from Australia to Zambia - will be represented at the 30th Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth (RASC) Conference. The event, which is being hosted in Scotland, was founded in 1957 by the late Duke of Edinburgh Prince...