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.
Rapeseed Protein FeedA recently introduced protein-rich feedstuff from Norvite, the long-established, Scottish livestock feed firm, aims to cut the livestock sectors reliance on imported Soya Bean Meal. Extended trials of NEOlac on an award-winning Aberdeenshire dairy unit have shown that it can replace Soya Bean Meal with no adverse effects on cow health, milk yield or quality. NEOlac, which is derived from cold-pressed oilseed rape grown locally to Norvite’s plant in North East Scotland, has been developed specifically for dairy cow rations.
READ MORESummer show season is the perfect airing for office cobwebs and for catching up and sharing highs and lows of the year so far, but as a business owner, they are not to be approached lightly. Shows are extremely important platforms, responsible for much of the coming year’s successful trading.
READ MORETo celebrate and mark over 30 years in operation, the HBS Board of Directors decided to donate £100 for every year of operation, making a total of £3000.
READ MORESoilEssentials, the precision farming solutions pioneers, based in Angus, Scotland has announced an exciting new artificial intelligence platform aimed at safeguarding food production and the environment.SKAi, the SoilEssentials KORE Artificial Intelligence project, is developing re-trainable smart camera vision in order to recognise, map and precision apply agrochemicals to crops.
READ MOREAn innovative Scottish livestock feed firm has teamed up with an award-winning dairy to tackle a major sustainability issue faced by British dairy farmers.
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