AgriScot, the UK’s leading agricultural business event, has launched its pre-registration, allowing visitors to benefit from free entry and free car parking. Supported by Warrendale Wagyu, one of the UK’s leading beef supply chains, producing the highest quality...
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Nutritionist backs farmers’ campaign to highlight the humble carrot
“CARROTS are one of our nation’s most versatile yet underappreciated foods,” says leading nutritionist Dr Laura Wyness. Dr Wyness, who has 20 years’ experience as an author, podcast host and public speaker on nutrition and public health, heard through a colleague...
Season update: Autumn 2025 presents rare opportunity to reduce grassweed seedbanks
Across the country autumn 2024 provided good conditions for getting on top of grassweeds and many growers have seen populations decline. With a legacy of weed seeds in the soil profile, however, maintaining the focus will be key to continued control. “Those farmers...
Celebrating 15 years of success: AgriScot Business Skills Award looks to Agriculture’s future
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...
Shifting weather patterns calls for a shift in mindset
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...
Lawrie Legacy Boosts Learning for Three Young People
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...
7 ways to strengthen your grassweed control this autumn
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....
Passing the baton: Brilliant bunch of farmers join forces to launch British Carrot Day 2025
We meet the fourth generation of a carrot growing family as preparations get underway for a national day to celebrate this often-overlooked hero of the veg rack … WHILE his classmates were heading off on holiday after sitting their GCSE exams, a 16-year-old Will...
IAAS response to bluetongue virus (BTV) update
Statement from Neil Wilson, Executive Director of The Institute for Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland, in response to the Scottish Government’s latest update on the bluetongue virus (BTV) situation in the UK: We are pleased to see that Scottish Government has...
Oxford Farming Conference invites applications for Inspiring Innovators 2026
The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC), in partnership with McCain Foods (GB) Ltd., is inviting applications for its Inspiring Innovators programme, which will return for the 2026 conference. Building on the success of its launch last year, the programme will...