David Girvan News Today

Over the past year, the farm has undergone significant changes, notably scaling down the ewe numbers from 500 to 190 for this year’s tupping season.

October has been a busy month for us as we opened our farm gates again for our annual pumpkin picking events.  Every year comes with its own challenges,

We seem to have fared much better than other areas of the country after the awful wet weather this weekend. We are lucky that we only have one field that

On 4 August we sold 300 store lambs at Dingwall and Highland Mart’s first lamb sale of 2023. These were our top draw of lambs, and we were happy enough

Our shepherd moved on recently to pastures new. It’s always difficult losing good staff, but I am aware that we are just a rung on the ladder for

June came with the most prolonged dry weather I have seen here. You’ll possibly have read about the Cannich wildfire, which was half a mile from our

With lambing finished, things have become a bit less hectic here. It has gone well, with the weather in our favour. Lambing everything outside certainly

Now in March, we’re beginning to see signs of spring. We recently carried out the standard four-year TB test on all our breeding cattle, and I’m very glad

Mid-December brought us one of the coldest snaps of weather for a few years. It has been at least five years since we’ve suffered such prolonged, low

A farm by Loch Ness is getting set to cater for families on the hunt for Halloween pumpkins.