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Facebook for Farmers – event summary

Facebook is a great unknown to many farmers, but it offers a free tool for marketing your livestock, produce and services to a potentially unlimited audience. The website has over 1…

Grassland Rejuvenation Day – event summary

The event was attended by 29 farmers. Talks in the morning by Gavin Elrick on soil structure and Alex Sinclair on soil fertility and fertilisers were well received and prompted…

New Entrants to Farming: Take Nothing for Granted – event summary

The event was held on Friday 10th March in the HelloDigital Meeting room at the An Lochran building in Inverness. The guest speaker was SAC Consulting’s Kara Craig who took…

North East Organic Discussion Group 1 – event summary

35 organic farmers or those thinking of converting to organic production gathered for the launch of the NE Organic Discussion Group at Craibstone on Wednesday the 8th of March. There…

Look After Your Soil and It Will Look After You – event summary

Gavin Elrick focused on soil textures, structures and compaction – showing videos on the effects of tyre pressures with lower field settings creating far less compaction than field work using…

New Entrants to Farming: Grassland Management – event summary

+++This event was repeated in Morayshire+++ A grassland management meeting was held on Monday 6th March 2017 as the last of the Argyll & Lochaber New Entrant events for 2016/17.…

Diversification: Woodlands & Renewables (Stranraer) – event summary

Have you wondered about diversifying into woodlands or renewables? This meeting aims to inform farmers and land owners the future financial and business potential in both woodland and renewable energy as well as highlighting funding sources for these types of projects.