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Grant funding to help improve sustainability of Scottish farming businesses
Managing a farming business amidst local lockdown measures can be challenging, with many farmers and crofters facing ongoing market uncertainty created by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Through the Scottish Government’s…
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Paying for Covid: could you be affected by the outcome of the Capital Gains Tax review?
On the 14th July the ‘Office of Tax Simplification’ (the independent advisor to the government on simplifying the UK tax system set up in 2010 with the objective of offering…
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Women in Agriculture, Caithness: Animal Health
Women in Agriculture, Caithness are running a 2-part mini series of GoToMeetings, based on Animal Health that you are all invited to (click the links to register): Part 1 –…
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Keeping Pigs at a Small Scale Level
Join Ross Mackenzie, Dr Emma Baxter and SRUC Veterinary Investigation Officer Hannah Orr for a series of bitesize webinars throughout October. The webinars are aimed at anyone looking to keep…
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A Season with Sheep
If you are new or relatively new to sheep keeping, join us for this series of 3 meetings online, discussing the 3 key seasons in the sheep year. We start…
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When should a first wheat be treated as a second wheat?
With an anticipated reduction in demand due to the disruption from COVID combined with reports of quality issues leading to costly deductions and rejections, a number of malting barley growers are looking at sowing winter wheat following…
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Managing People
Managing people and getting the best from staff can be challenging. Often farmers themselves have never been employed other than by the family business and this makes the thought of…
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Combine Settings in a Bad Skinning Year for Malting Barley
With the malting barley harvest now underway, it is being reported that skinned grain levels are higher than normal in grain samples. This can lead to deductions or worse costly rejections with…
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Grain sampling during COVID restrictions
Many grain merchants provide an on-farm grain sampling service to their clients in order to gauge the quality and suitability of grain lots. This is extremely important in the case of malting barley…
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Implications of COVID-19 on the movement of grain
Cereal farmers are reminded to consider the implications COVID-19 and lockdown may have in terms of grain movement, particularly for crops usually sold on an “as available” basis or for harvest movement with end…
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