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.

June 18, 2020

Hear from the Rural Economy Secretary in the OnFARM Podcast

This week, in what would have been the week of the Royal Highland Show, the OnFARM podcast, being produced in association with Show organisers, RHASS, has welcomed Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.

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June 15, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 6: The View From Town

It is Royal Highland Show week! Or it would be in more normal times. In The View From Town, OnFARM explores ways people not directly connected to agriculture still connect and relate to food, farming and the countryside.

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June 8, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 5: The Very Best of Food and Drink

If you are looking for the very best in food and drink, from the finest Scottish producers, the Royal Highland Show is clearly the place to be.The food hall - more properly ‘Scotland’s Larder Live’ - is always one of the Show’s biggest draws.

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June 4, 2020

SoilEssentials Launch Highland Show Alternative Catch Ups for Charity

SoilEssentials Catch Ups - Angus based precision farming solutions pioneers SoilEssentials have announced that they are going to be arranging catch-up calls and chats to anyone who would have been planning to visit them at this year’s Highland Show in order to say hello, and raise money for charity at the same time.

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June 1, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 4: Taking Care of Business

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