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July 8, 2019

HBS Ring Ltd Celebrates 30 years by donating £3000 to the agricultural charity RSABI

To celebrate and mark over 30 years in operation, the HBS Board of Directors decided to donate £100 for every year of operation, making a total of £3000.

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July 8, 2019

Scottish Agri-Tech Company Reaches for the SKAi

SoilEssentials, the precision farming solutions pioneers, based in Angus, Scotland has announced an exciting new artificial intelligence platform aimed at safeguarding food production and the environment.SKAi, the SoilEssentials KORE Artificial Intelligence project, is developing re-trainable smart camera vision in order to recognise, map and precision apply agrochemicals to crops.

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July 8, 2019

Cutting Out Imported Soya Leads to Better Dairy Sustainability

An innovative Scottish livestock feed firm has teamed up with an award-winning dairy to tackle a major sustainability issue faced by British dairy farmers.

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June 18, 2019

Support our champions of rural entrepreneurship – only three weeks left to nominate for Helping It Happen Awards 2019

The Helping It Happen Awards have become a leading champion of Scotland’s rural economy and thriving culture of entrepreneurship and organisers, Scottish Land & Estates, are now urging nominees to come forward before nominations close on Monday 8 July 2019.

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June 17, 2019

Grassland Management Challenged at Land and Livestock Conference

Holistic Land ManagementThe Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA) and Organic Farmers and Growers (OF&G) enjoyed a successful day at their fourth annual Livestock in Low Input Systems (LILIS) conference on the 7th of June, with delegates being offered a viewpoint that is both alternative to common practice and is proving to be highly successful on farm. After a welcome from John Rowell, Home Farm manager on the Dumfries House estate, Alex Brewster of SOPA introduced Christopher and Sheila Cooke of 3LM Holistic Land Management.

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June 11, 2019

Celebrating the Humble Scottish Tattie on 'Wake Up To Organic' Day!

Scottish organic potato farmer John Skea, and his family, enjoyed a breakfast of organic tattie scones this week, as part of a series of ‘Wake Up To Organic’ events, aimed at showing how easy it is to switch to an organic breakfast.

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June 10, 2019

Scottish Cheesemaker Scoops Another Award in 2019

Organic artisan cheese producer Connage Highland Dairy has once again been recognised for its produce. Just weeks after winning ‘Best Cheese in Scotland’ at the Melton Mowbray Artisan Cheese Awards, Connage Highland Dairy has been awarded another ‘Best Scottish Cheese’ award.

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June 3, 2019

Fenton Barns Nursery Announced as Two Time Finalist in National Awards

Fenton Barns Nursery, close to North Berwick, has been selected as a finalist in not just one but two categories within the prestigious Scottish NMT Nursery Awards 2019.

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May 24, 2019

McCaskie Butchers Bacon Wins at Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2019

Third-generation, family-run West Coast butchers, McCaskie’s has once again been recognised for the superior quality and range of its produce, winning ‘Scotch Product of the Year’ with its Unsmoked Back Bacon in this year’s Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards, Scotland’s food and drink ‘Oscars’. McCaskie Scotch Native Breed Sirloin Steak also reached the final in the same category.

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May 21, 2019

Scottish Organic Cheese Maker Wins At National Awards

Organic artisan cheese producer Connage Highland Dairy has once again been recognised for its produce, winning ‘Best Scottish Cheese’ at the Artisan Cheese Awards, part of the UK’s biggest cheese fair.

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