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Winter wheat set for strong 2024 recovery | The Scottish Farmer
WEB13 hours ago · Eric Anderson of Scottish Agronomy notes the economic pressures on crop rotations, with winter wheat expected to recover strongly this season as it provides the highest gross margin for most combinable crop farms. The AHDB predicts winter milling wheat and feed wheat will lead the way in 2025 harvests due to …
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Lambs fight pests on the wheat front | The Scottish Farmer
WEB13 hours ago · Lambs fight pests on the wheat front. Grazing lambs could hold the key to healthier wheat crops. I INVOKED the spirit of one of one of Henry Brewis’s cartoons a fortnight ago when I was trying to put a positive spin on the wheat yields – but having picked one of his tomes from the bookshelf, I found another quite appropriate for this week ...
Farmers warned of increased rodent activity | The Scottish Farmer
WEB1 day ago · Here are six top tips to effectively rodent-proof your site: 1. It may seem simple but keeping sites clean and tidy should become a regular part of any farmer’s maintenance routine. Keep pallets and sacks to a minimum as these make for the perfect harbourage, and remove any rubbish or unwanted stores of straw and hay. 2.
Scotland’s beef cow numbers fall by 8,400 | The Scottish Farmer
WEBSep 20, 2024 · MORE NEWS | Beef industry experts react to news of beef suckler decline MORE NEWS | Farming giant Sir John Campbell passes away Last year alone, 1200 cows disappeared from the north-east of Scotland, and Nairnshire lost 20% of their beef herd. Whilst Scotland’s flagship beef industry laments the declining numbers of cows, the independent body set up by the UK Government to advise on hitting ...
UK food self-sufficiency hits record lows, sparking concerns
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Defra states that the UK is 62% self-sufficient in food. The new government is being urged to take action to prevent a further decline in self-sufficiency, as recent figures show that levels for some foods are at their lowest since records began. The significance of boosting self-sufficiency levels has been underscored recently on August 14 ...
Scotland slashed agriculture emissions by 11.9% since 1990
WEBJun 21, 2024 · Scotland’s agriculture emissions fell by 11.9%, equivalent to one million tonne of carbon dioxide (1.0 MtCO2e), between 1990 and 2022. The agriculture emissions figure featured in the Scottish Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Statistics 2022 published on Tuesday, June 18. Between 1990 and 2022, there was a …
Harvest Round-up 2021: Tremendous harvest conditions – but …
WEBSep 17, 2021 · Borders. Harvest 2021 has drawn to a close for Robert Neil, from Upper Nisbet, Jedburgh, who told The SF that it had been a fairly easy harvest all round. “Our winter barley yields are up on the year, spring barley is half a tonne an acre back and wheat is back a bit, but prices are buoyant,” he said.
Scottish farming plans 2025: full of promises, short on facts
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Peatland in Scotland: Caught between conservation and bureaucracy. The Scottish Government (or Riaghaltus na h-Alba) sent us farmers a letter in July about Support in 2025. Long on pious intent and verbiage – short on facts. A rather muddled and ramshackle effort in truth. There is lots about farming peatland and how it …
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