The Scottish Farmer has again teamed up with crop protection specialist, Bayer, to update advice through the Crop Doctor programme as the season develops. This week, we report from some of the Bayer cereal trials, based at SRUC’s Boghall Farm, just South of Edinburgh:
Learning and experiencing how mixed farming works together is one of the highlights of a modern apprenticeship, according to Alicja Blaszczyk.
Slurry applied on dull and dry days in January and February gives the biggest grass yield the following year, according to Alan Kerr of Low Dallars Farm, by Kilmarnock.
A Yorkshire Goat farm has been ordered to pay £200,000 in fines and compensation after a farm worker was run over a fatally wounded.
Lambing season means sea eagle season in the West of Scotland, with eyewitness accounts of live lambs being taken by the reintroduced apex predator.
Rising cereal prices are pushing more farmers to consider moving to more grass-fed systems.
This week in The Scottish Farmer we hear from farmers on Mull who are losing lambs to sea eagles.
THE SCOTTISH Farmer recently caught up with beef producer Peter Kennedy, of Dunans, Glendaruel, Dunoon, to hear how this spring's calving season has been for him.
The Danish pig herd has contracted by over 5% to 12.5million head, according to Statistics Denmark.
Kintyre and Bute farmers face having to shell out thousands of pounds to comply with new slurry storage requirements.
