A look back at Scottish farming's 2021 (part three)
July - Scotland's pig sector was in imminent danger of losing the ‘critical mass’ it needed to remain viable – and the blame was being laid…
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July - Scotland's pig sector was in imminent danger of losing the ‘critical mass’ it needed to remain viable – and the blame was being laid…
So, here we are into a New Year. We can only hope that 2022 can shake off the veritable hangovers caused by Brexit and Covid-19 – the debilitating…
It's good to be out and about again. On consecutive evenings I went to the Kelso Discussion Society and to the SNFU presentation/discussion about…
Famers will be at the heart of a future support framework to help Scottish agriculture become more economically and environmentally sustainable.
Back in the days before the internet provided access to a myriad questionable weather forecasts, an old analogue barometer always hung at the farmhouse back door. While it might never have given the same sort of detail as its on-line equivalents, focusing more on predictions such as ‘fair’, ‘dry’ and ‘stormy’, the direction of travel of the single indicator hand always gave you a pretty good idea what sort of change might be on the way. Giving it a gentle tap in the morning would let you know if the pressure was rising, or falling and so some idea of what way the weather was...