Following the growing success of their Livestock in Low Input Systems (LILIS) event, the Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA) have announced that this year’s conference will take place at Home Farm, on the Dumfries House estate.
READ MOREBirken Tree, the first and only home-grown producer of commercial Birchwater in the UK, has launched the Birken Tree Crowdfunding campaign to help fund its plans to expand its healthy product range from sustainably managed native Birch trees in Perthshire.
READ MOREPeople across rural Scotland are being urged to share their stories of the work done by local estates, farms and land-based businesses to help their surrounding communities flourish, as nominations for the 2019 Helping It Happen Awards get underway.
READ MOREOver the last few years, Birchwater has seen a significant rise in popularity in the UK and across the Northern Hemisphere.
READ MOREA new training scheme is being rolled out across the Scottish Borders to help bring more young people into the rural workforce.With figures from across Scotland showing that only 25% of the number of trained workers required are coming into agriculture every year, BMR (Borders Machinery Ring Ltd) has launched a new pre-apprenticeship programme to help make up the shortfall.
READ MOREScots all over the UK are being called upon to support a campaign to bring Scotland’s national dish into the language of emojis.
READ MOREMcCaskie Butchers, based in Wemyss Bay, achieved a remarkable feat at Scotland’s only annual haggis competition which took place earlier this week.
READ MOREA one-thousand-pound cash prize, plus a sponsored trip to the Nuffield Farming Conference has been awarded to the winner of this year’s AgriScot Business Skills competition.
READ MOREAn East Ayrshire family run dairy farm has been awarded the prestigious Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year 2018 title.The award is part of a series of farm of the year awards presented at AgriScot, the farm business event, held at Ingliston, Edinburgh on 21st November
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