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Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA) and AHDB are launching a new network of organic cereals and combinable crop growers in Scotland. The network will focus on several meetings per year in a hybrid format, where growers can exchange experience, knowledge and skills. Organic growers are invited to attend the online launch on 29th November at 12.30 pm, where David Cunningham, bio-agronomist from Dods of Haddington, will speak about how a biological focus on soils and plant nutrition is the future of organic yields.
READ MOREFor many of us, especially business owners, this winter is giving many a great deal of anxiety. With the cost of living at an all-time high and energy bills reaching astronomic heights, it seems prudent to redraft budgets and cut out any unnecessary expenditure. Spending money on PR and Marketing suddenly seems like a luxury. However, there are good reasons why now is not the time to cut your communication strategy.
READ MOREDenise Walton trained as an ecologist, but has spent 30 years alongside family and business partners building up Peelham Farm, and expanding into butchery and charcuterie.
READ MORENew behaviours are constantly being formed around online shopping and, as they do, so must your marketing.
READ MOREWhat needs to happen to prices and ways of working, to enable farming and food production to meet carbon reduction targets? A year on from world leaders amassing in Glasgow to discuss climate change action, and with COP27 underway in Egypt, we're revisiting Anna's chat from this time last year with SAOS chairman John Hutcheson, and Emma Patterson-Taylor, SAOS's climate change and sustainability manager.
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