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September 21, 2021

AgriScot Skills Competition Open for Business

The date for AgriScot has been moved to 9 February 2022, however, the various farm of the year awards and competitions hosted at the event are now in full flow.The AgriScot Business Skills competition - designed to encourage young people aged 18-25 to develop their farm and business management skills – has now opened for entries.

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September 16, 2021

Coasts and Waters: The British Seafood Cookbook Launched as part of Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight

Christopher Trotter, co-author of the classic cookbooks The Whole Cow and The Whole Hog provided a focus for this year’s Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight with his new book, Coasts and Waters: The British Seafood Cookbook, which was launched at Welch’s Fishmongers in Newhaven today as part of Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight.

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September 30, 2021

Personal Development Opportunities For Women In Agriculture

An expansion of a personal development programme for women in agriculture has been launched this month, with participation commencing in October 2021.A new delivery team has been appointed to deliver the Scottish Government-funded ‘Be Your Best Self’ programme, whose membership includes experts in personal development facilitation, mental fitness coaching and agricultural expertise, to offer a creative and impactful experience for participants.

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August 20, 2021

New Date for AgriScot

Plans for the forthcoming AgriScot are well underway, however, organisers have taken the unprecedented decision to move the farm business event from the original November date to 9 February 2022. Explaining the decision, which he stressed was not taken lightly, AgriScot Chairman Robert Neill stated:

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August 17, 2021

Jason Connery: “We All Need A Farmer"

A new short film, aimed at raising the feel-good factor amongst Scotland’s farmers, has launched on social media this week.The film, “We all need a farmer”, is the work of award-winning Director, Jason Connery, and narrated by renowned Scottish actor Ian Pirie.

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August 4, 2021

Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year in Full Flow

AgriScot awards for beef, diversified and sheep farms may have just recently got underway – the nomination period opened earlier this month – however, the Scottish dairy farm award has moved into full-on assessment mode with organisers unveiling the top 3 entries.

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July 28, 2021

SKAi is No Limit in Fight Against Grassland Weeds

An innovative precision farming platform is employing artificial intelligence (AI) in the battle against weeds in grassland.Green-on-green, ie the targeting of green weeds in a green crop, has long been a challenge for those hoping to use precision farming technology to guide their spray applications. Now, SoilEssentials, the precision farming solutions pioneer, based in Angus, Scotland has harnessed expertise from the space industry along with agronomists and leading academics, to develop AI to overcome the green-on-green challenge.

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July 20, 2021

"Growers must cut emissions by 75% in less than two crop rotations"

“There’s never been anything as important as the climate change maze we have to direct our businesses through.” Podcasting, PR, Marketing

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June 1, 2021

Estate Management and Rural Property Consultancy Stanley Wright appoint Gordon Kerr as Director

Independent Estate Management and Rural Property Consultancy, Stanley Wright, is continuing recent growth with the exciting appointment of a new Director.

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May 20, 2021

Diversified Farm of the Year

A new award aiming to crown the Diversified Farm of the Year has been launched by AgriScot.Thanks to support from SAC Consulting, part of SRUC and long-term Agri Scot partner Royal Bank of Scotland, the new award will complete the prestigious stable of AgriScot farm of the year titles awarded each year at the farm business event.Recently appointed AgriScot Director, Ian Brydson, will act as convenor for the new award and commented:

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