by Andrew Williamson | Sep 3, 2025 | Press Releases
AgriScot has launched the 2025 Business Skills Award, marking 15 years of the prestigious competition, with a top prize of £1,000 for the winner, kindly sponsored by Virgin Money. A competition for aspiring agricultural professionals between 18 and 25 years of age...
by Andrew Williamson | Sep 1, 2025 | Press Releases
With an earlier-than-“normal” Scottish cereal harvest and combines making rapid progress through August, fields are being cleared quicker than would be expected, creating some bonus time for remedial work this year. These are what we’ve traditionally seen as “English...
by Andrew Williamson | Sep 1, 2025 | JCM News
When you farm in the North-East of Scotland, “drought” isn’t a word we use often; we’re more likely to be complaining about wet weather pushing cereal harvest into October, than parched soils. Yet the weather patterns of the last few years are a different story: the...
by Andrew Williamson | Sep 1, 2025 | Press Releases
Three young people have been awarded funding to further their skills and wider understanding of agricultural business both at home and abroad. As he retires as Company Secretary from Scottish Agronomy, the farmer-owned cooperative, a bursary has been set up in George...
by Andrew Williamson | Aug 29, 2025 | Press Releases
With autumn fast approaching, attention is turning to winter wheat drilling and how to achieve the best possible grassweed control to get crops off to a strong start. Black-grass and Italian ryegrass remain two of the most damaging threats to UK arable production....
