After a firm end to 2023, the lamb market has risen further, reaching record levels for the time of year. This month, hoggs have averaged well above 300p/kg lwt at Scottish marts, and averaged around 315p/kg in the second and third weeks of February. Price rises have...
Farmer Tom Martin - founder of the hugely successful Farmer Time project - has revealed how he would never have launched the initiative if it hadn’t been for the “jump start, leg up and inspiration” he received at a commonwealth agricultural conference eight years...
Grassland management and natural aids to worm control can hold a key to keeping costs down, a webinar entitled Reducing Flock Input was told. The online audience at the event, organised by SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural College, learnt how proactive pasture...
Now is the time to look ahead to managing this year’s silage quality, advises dairy expert, Lorna MacPherson, at SAC Consulting, to reduce input costs as well as the farm’s environmental footprint. Lorna is part of the Farming for a Better Climate initiative run by...
I am very honoured to have been elected chair of Scottish Quality Crops (SQC) at our AGM on 25th January, and I would like to acknowledge the service that Andrew Moir, our previous chair, has given over the last eight years. I take over at a time of significant change...
East Coast Viners, the north-east livestock nutrition company, and sister company, game feed supplier, Spratt’s, this weekend handed over £11,000 to the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) at its Dyce base. The money has been raised over the last 12 months by the...
“The hogg trade is flying at the moment, about 80p/kg up on the year and there’s potentially good prices for those with hoggs still to finish,” says Calum Littlejohn, livestock nutritionist at East Coast Viners. “With so many farming costs high at the moment, it can...
A leader in the field of carbon calculation has hailed DEFRA’s long-awaited Harmonisation report as an “important catalyst” to improve consistency when it comes to tackling agriculture’s carbon footprint. Farmers first complaint when it comes to taking part in carbon...
A new partnership between The MacRobert Trust and Inclusive Farm will provide people with disabilities, additional needs or difference, a new route into agriculture. Through the provision of land and buildings by The MacRobert Trust in Tarland, Aberdeenshire, a new...
Variability is going to be the cause of much head scratching for growers and agronomists this year. Winter wheat crops are showing variability between fields, crops, and within stands and this coupled with differences in leaf layer emergence, which NIAB have recently...