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...
Beef and sheep farmers across Scotland are now being better equipped to understand and meet market demands through a workshop organised by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS). These workshops, the most recent held at Woodhead Brothers in Turriff, aim to provide farmers with...
Generations of shepherds have wondered how to best deal with triplet lambs and research from SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), is taking the trial and error out of rearing them. A healthy turnout from Scotland’s sheep farming community joined a...
Brown’s Food Group – Scotland’s biggest pork producer - links tradition and innovation to launch new sausage range showcasing Scottish pork Promoting Specially Selected Pork is at the heart of The Kilted Pork Company brand of sausages which has just been rolled out...
The UK’s leading agricultural business event, AgriScot, has changed its date, bringing the event forward by one week to 13 November. The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) and AgriScot have been working in partnership for a number of years....