News from the field

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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.

April 5, 2021

I wish I had….

The four words I DO NOT want to be saying on my death bed. After a few health scares among family members lately, and having read a book called ‘Everything is Figureoutable’ by Marie Forleo (highly recommend and see below for a few other recent book recommendations), I’ve been thinking quite a bit about making dreams come true.

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April 5, 2021

Skills Competition Back in Business for 2021

Plans for the AgriScot 2021 competitions are progressing at pace with a new sponsor announcement and a call to young farmers being made for the event’s Business Skills competition.

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March 31, 2021

‘ROCK ON SOILS’ PROJECT REPORTS POSITIVE RESULTS

The Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA), the UK’s only membership body owning Scottish organic standards, has just completed a project examining a new product in the hope of allowing Scottish farmers to draw down more carbon into their soils, and has reported some positive results.

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March 30, 2021

New Milk Vending Machines at Connage Highland Dairy

Connage Highland Dairy, based at Ardersier near Inverness, have this week opened their brand new ‘Connage Express’ vending machine operation.Selling their own organic milk, both pre-bottled and also for self-service customer refills, is relatively new for the dairy which is better known for its range of multi-award-winning organic cheeses.

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March 29, 2021

Are you telling stories?

That was the phrase my dad always used to say to me as a child when he thought I was being economical with the truth! I guess sometimes I was! But these days, I like to think that my efforts are concentrated on true and authentic stories.

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