Rural Britain is a wonderful assortment of farms, estates, hamlets, villages, forests and moors, lochs and valleys. Our stunning scenery, close communities and wonderful rural businesses provide an idyllic lifestyle for many, but rural life can also throw up some pretty unique challenges.
The Rural Scene (the Scene & Herd rural blog and news updates) looks at what’s new, what’s relevant, what’s tasty, what’s fun and what’s challenging about life in the Great British Countryside. We offer an insider insight into rural Britain, highlighting some of the exceptional people, businesses and innovations we believe that everybody should know about.
Rodney Blackhall and Emma Cheape describe how they both - independently of each other - organised moving rural tributes to Her Majesty the Queen as she was carried by cortège from Balmoral to Edinburgh. Rodney brought together over 40 tractors to stand guard as the convoy passed through Aberdeenshire. Down the road in Perthshire, Emma was standing by with over 30 riders on horseback.
READ MOREBack in our March 2020 newsletter, we included Louisa May Alcott's famous quotation "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." That newsletter was in response to the country being plunged into lockdown. Now, another storm is brewing in the shape of the cost of living crisis. We can't control the weather any more than we can control the price of fuel but there are some things we can control, for example, our effort, attitude and the choices we make.
READ MOREEssentialsNetRTK, the highly accurate signal correction network for tractor and implement guidance systems is being lauded by farming users as the most reliable system of its kind. Graham Ralston, a Director of Angus-based SoilEssentials, the firm behind EssentialsNetRTK explains more:“We are delighted with the feedback we received from a survey of users of our EssentialsNetRTK; 100% of them rated it as ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’.”
READ MORE...Living Explorer. Sir Ranulph Fiennes. What a man – and I was lucky enough to be near the front in the big tent at the Fringe by the Sea to hear him speak about his 78 years of adventure. I paraphrase a little but, having been so inspired by his words, I wanted to share some of them with you.
READ MOREAs final preparations are made for Europe's biggest tup sale at Kelso in the Borders, Monty revisits 23-year-old Andrew Hutcheson, a young auctioneer who first stepped up to the big league at Kelso this time last year. While the sale itself is a frenetic day, Monty hears how Andrew and others spend the weeks ahead of Kelso 'canvassing' farmers to win business. Thanks to auctioneers Harrison and Hetherington for supporting this episode.
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