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Help is at hand from RSABI WITH THE farming industry working flat out with calving and lambing across the country, increasing pressures can be placed on farming’s mental health. The Scottish Farmer has teamed up with farming charity RSABI to share stories of those who have sought support in their services in difficult times and to urge them to reach out to the charity if they or someone they know might be struggling. Speaking up and seeking out support is the first step towards getting ...

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PREMIUM Dye and his wife Elizabeth, daughter Katie (2 1/2years) and son James (1) farm some 295 grassland acres at Lee Meadow, Braidwood Ref:RH280121217 Rob Haining / The Scottish Farmer... Sourcing the ideal suckler cow that is able to tick all the boxes for hard pressed farmers and discerning diners, is far from easy, but Lanarkshire producer Dye Clark is confident he has found the answer in the Beef Shorthorn and her cross-bred females. Better known in Texel and indeed sheep shearing c...

Enterprising young couple, Ross and Elaine Pattinson, have packed a lot into the last decade – establishing their successful pedigree Top Side British Blue herd, setting up a commercial dairy herd – and, most recently, diversifying into direct sales of milk to customers. In their first farming business together, the couple took on the tenancy of Temon Farm, near Brampton, right on the Cumbria-Northumberland border, in 2011. The Cumbrian-born pair first set up their small herd of Blues...

The hardy characteristics of the Luing female are proving key to the success of Robert McCarlie’s suckler cow herd at Wester Hassockrigg, Harthill. “We have a lot of rough ground and with the high rainfall, it doesn’t make life easy. Being in such an exposed area and a dreich part of the country, it is challenging but the farm can grow good grass in the summer. “This is why we depend on the Luing and Sim-Luing for their hardiness and good temperament– we would struggle to find a...

In recent times we have all become more reliant on hauliers to transport goods during the global pandemic and one which has been kept busy is agriculture hauliers, JL Wilkie, based at Longforgan, near Perth. This fourth-generation family business is now run by David Wilkie and his son, also David and his wife, Sarah, who do most of the day to day running of the business, whilst David’s brother, Jockie, also helps out in a company which has now been trading for 20 years. the fleet are made...