Crofts & Small Farms
VLOG – Crofting Improvements
Taking on a new croft, one of the first jobs will be to assess what the ground is like, what it is capable of, and how to get there. This…
Read More >VLOG – Teaser Tup
Tupping time is the start of the sheep year, and your management now can have a big impact of the success of the business for the rest of the year.…
Read More >VLOG – Lambing and Feeding
Pet lambs are unfortunately a likely occurrence for one reason or another during lambing time. Looked after well, these lambs can go on to match the performance of their naturally…
Read More >VLOG – Hypothermic Lamb
Do you know what the temperature of a normal healthy lamb is?* Dealing with chilled lambs can be a regular occurrence if you are lambing outside and the weather…
Read More >VLOG – A New Entrant’s Journey
Join us as we follow new entrant crofters Aoife Gould and Jake Sayles through a year on their croft near Edinbane in the north of the Isle of Skye. Find…
Read More >KPI Tool
A KPI tool has been developed that will allow farmers and crofters to input data they have already available to them in order to benchmark their farming enterprises and make…
Read More >Crofters Duties
Both tenant and owner-occupier crofters have duties they must comply with, by law. If crofters fail in these duties, then the Crofting Commission has the power to terminate a tenancy…
Read More >Polyproduce Marketing
The surge in crofters and smallholders interest in growing fruit and vegetables as well as an elevated demand for locally sourced foods by current consumers has meant an identification of…
Read More >Living off the land: expert help to support self-sufficient croft
Listen to our latest podcast interview with Mark Foxwell, a successful crofter based in Sutherland who applied for business development support through FAS to improve his crofting business. Mark and…
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