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New Entrants to Farming: Joint Venture Farming – Event Summary
Key Points: Trust and respect between the farmer and contractor are vital to ensure the continued success of any agreement. Negotiation is very important when setting up an agreement –…
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New Entrants to Farming: Management of Marginal Land – Event Summary
Management of marginal land and the habitats within them is vital to Scotland and particularly in the highlands where the quality of land can be highly variable. Well thought out…
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FAS Case Study: One-to-one Integrated Land Management Plan
Beauty Bhowmik of High Cleughearn Farm In 2015, Beauty Bhowmik and her husband Devproteek, decided to change careers and move their family from London to East Kilbride to start a…
Read More >New Entrants to Farming: A Business Plan Is More Than Just A Report (Ayr) Event Summary
Kev Bevan, gave an excellent presentation entitled a business plan is more than just a report. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage young farmers and new entrants to…
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New Entrants to Farming: Breeding the Best – Event Summary
The Uist New Entrants group were joined by SAC Sheep Specialist Poppy Frater to look at how to get the best from their Sheep Flock. With many crofters opting to…
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New Entrants to Farming: Animal Health & Welfare Workshop (Borders) – Event Summary
New entrants to farming in the Borders recently attended an informative, hands on workshop on maintaining and improving animal health at the SAC Veterinary Services Centre at Greycrook, St Boswells.…
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New Entrants to Farming: Livestock Health and Nutrition (Forfar) – Event Summary
This was the 6th meeting of the Forfar New Entrants to Farming group where the main focus for the night was on livestock health and nutrition. Speakers on the night…
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New Entrants to Farming: Identifying & Grasping Business Opportunities (Argyll) – Event Summary
The first of the 2017 / 18 Argyll New Entrant Group meetings was held on Monday 11th December at the Falls of Lora Hotel, Connel. The theme was Identifying and…
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Stonehaven Smallholders Discussion Group – Event Summary
Some of the north east smallholders in the area got together to see if their was interest for forming a regular discussion group. On the night there were discussion on:…
Read More >Common Grazings Discussion Group – Skye – Event Summary
The launch meeting of the Common Grazings discussion group went well. The survey undertaken by the attendees has revealed interesting information that will be the basis for future work and…
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