Scottish sheep farmers are being urged to donate lambs to auction marts as part of a new initiative to get more schoolchildren cooking and eating the meat
The Rural Leadership Programme encourages participants to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset RURAL LEADERS looking to grow their businesses have been invited to apply for the Scottish Enterprise Rural Leadership Programme The programme – facilitated by SAC Consulting – is now in its 15th year and is open to rural business managers or owners looking to change their business model, learn new skills, embrace digital technologies and a new way of working, and respond to their customers’ needs. The course will run between October 2021 and March 2022 and will be a mix of in-person and virtual meetings. There are 40 places available, with participants paying £630 (plus VAT) and the rest of the costs covered by Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise.
Iain Riddell IAIN RIDDELL, the man responsible for bringing monitor farms to Scotland, is retiring after more than 40 years at SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural College. Mr Riddell, who steps down from his role as Business Development Manager this week, first explored the idea of monitor farms while on holiday in New Zealand in 1998. Two years later, he won funding for a Farmers Club Charitable Trust study tour to report on the farms with the hope of replicating the idea back home. Since then, SAC Consulting has facilitated more than 40 monitor farms throughout Scotland, showcasing innovation in dairy, sheep, beef and arable farming and, in 2006, Iain’s work was recognised with an Inverarity Prize for Business Innovation.