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Agronomy blog: Black-grass – there’s more to come

Agronomy blog: Black-grass – there’s more to come

BASF Agronomy blog featuring award-winning Niab agronomist, Patrick Stephenson Current situation: “We were doing quite well at delaying drilling this autumn but the dam has now burst and diesel is being burnt. Weather and soil conditions are just too good to hold back...

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A story of self-discovery; Conquering heights and habits

A story of self-discovery; Conquering heights and habits

Wallace Currie’s inspiring journey is a powerful reminder that looking after your wellbeing is important for your physical health but can also help you to transform your mindset. His positive and driven outlook on life has carried him through remarkable personal...

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Strong entry for October Stirling Bull Sales

Strong entry for October Stirling Bull Sales

The Galbraith Stirling Bull Sales this October boasts a strong line up with 339 pedigree bulls entered alongside over 250 females many with calves at foot, including three herd dispersals.   Scotland’s leading livestock auctioneers, United Auctions, will be holding a...

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Farmers Urged to Make Critical Winter Feeding Decisions

Farmers Urged to Make Critical Winter Feeding Decisions

A livestock nutrition expert is urging farmers to make critical decisions now on winter feeding strategies, with a hot, dry summer resulting in reduced silage stocks across Scotland. "This year has once again reminded us of the unpredictability of weather 'patterns' –...

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Oxford Farming Conference reveals speakers for OFC26

Oxford Farming Conference reveals speakers for OFC26

The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has announced the speaker line-up for its 2026 conference, taking place from 7 to 9 January, with the theme ‘Growing Resilience’. Opening and closing the programme will be global food systems expert Jack Bobo and conservation...

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Why potatoes deserve a bigger place on our plates

Why potatoes deserve a bigger place on our plates

The overlooked strength of a staple British Food Fortnight invites us to reflect on the food we grow in this country and the farmers who bring it to our tables. It is also an opportunity to look beyond the familiar and rediscover the true value of staples that too...

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Carrots are the tops – British Carrot Day launches for 2025

Carrots are the tops – British Carrot Day launches for 2025

Farmers, chefs and nutritionists are coming together this Autumn to celebrate one of the UK’s most heroic vegetables. Friday 3rd October is the second British Carrot Day, created by a group of passionate UK farmers who want the nation to rediscover the versatility,...

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Carrots are the tops – British Carrot Day launches for 2025

Carrots are the tops – British Carrot Day launches for 2025

Farmers, chefs and nutritionists are coming together this Autumn to celebrate one of the UK’s most heroic vegetables. Friday 3rd October is the second British Carrot Day, created by a group of passionate UK farmers who want the nation to rediscover the versatility,...

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Potatoes in Practice – driving innovation and collaboration

Potatoes in Practice – driving innovation and collaboration

BASF’s presence at one of the industry’s leading events, Potatoes in Practice last month, underpinned its commitment to this critical crop and gave the opportunity to exchange thoughts on the current season, showcase innovative fungicides, and share insights on their...

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Shifting weather patterns calls for a shift in mindset

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...

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Lawrie Legacy Boosts Learning for Three Young People

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...

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7 ways to strengthen your grassweed control this autumn

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....

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IAAS response to bluetongue virus (BTV) update

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...

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Inviting the agricultural sector to be Inspired

Inviting the agricultural sector to be Inspired

The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has opened applications for Inspire, a programme designed to support food and farming professionals to develop their skills and network. Created to enable ambitious candidates across the rural and agri-food sector to attend OFC for...

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Growing Resilience: A positive future for UK agriculture

Growing Resilience: A positive future for UK agriculture

The Oxford Farming Conference’s (OFC) new Chairman has shared plans for the charities 90th anniversary, with a focus on challenging the status quo, and driving a positive movement for change within UK agriculture, and beyond. Jude McCann, the OFC’s 2026 Chair and CEO...

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Cracking day planned for Wigtown Show

Cracking day planned for Wigtown Show

Wigtown Show in Dumfries and Galloway will be the first agricultural show in Scotland to host live birds since the ban on the movement of birds, to curb the spread of avian influenza. Taking place on Wednesday 6th August 2025, over 180 birds will be on show for...

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Balmaud Distillery: Old School Farmers, New School Distillers

Balmaud Distillery: Old School Farmers, New School Distillers

Situated five miles from the heart of Turriff, Balmaud Distillery is a bold new chapter for the Strachan family. Balmaud Whisky is the realisation of a dream rooted in generations of hard work, family farming tradition and a deep connection to the land.  For Wilson...

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New Company Secretary for Scottish Agronomy

New Company Secretary for Scottish Agronomy

Scottish Agronomy has appointed a new Company Secretary. Following the retirement of George Lawrie, Robin Barron, formerly the General Manager of East of Scotland Farmers, starts his role this month with the independent agronomy cooperative. Managing Director of...

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Egg producer’s combines start rolling for harvest 2025

Egg producer’s combines start rolling for harvest 2025

While eggs are the primary focus of Aberdeenshire’s Farmlay Eggs, the head of one the UK’s best-known names in egg production always looks forward to the harvest. “It’s my favourite time of year,” says Iain Chapman, managing director of his family’s £40m turnover egg...

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Farmer by name, farmer by nature

Farmer by name, farmer by nature

Turning her back on a professional curling career has helped Beth Farmer have a clean sweep of her wellbeing FOR somebody who has only just turned 25, Beth Farmer has already managed to fit an awful lot into her young life. Coming from a farming family there can be no...

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Perfecting Potatoes Together: Innovation and Insight

Perfecting Potatoes Together: Innovation and Insight

The late blight pathogen is constantly evolving, and the emergence of increasingly aggressive blight strains and those with resistance to key chemistries makes building effective programmes more challenging. BASF’s recent Perfecting Potatoes Together webinar, in...

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Regenerative farming visitors 35% up at Groundswell 2025

Regenerative farming visitors 35% up at Groundswell 2025

Groundswell 2025, which ran from 1-3 July, welcomed over 10,000 visitors to the Cherry family’s Lannock Farm near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The sell-out regenerative agriculture event included over 400 speakers from around the world, including the ‘grandfather’ of...

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Putting nature on the payroll at Wiston Estate

Putting nature on the payroll at Wiston Estate

Wiston Estate in West Sussex has employed its first full-time ecologist, funded entirely through income from one of the UK’s earliest private Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) transactions. The appointment marks a significant evolution in how rural estates are embedding...

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Data sharpens strategy for English wine producer MDCV

Data sharpens strategy for English wine producer MDCV

A new demographic insight tool developed by Knight Frank’s viticulture consultancy is helping one of the UK’s largest wine producers unlock new growth opportunities in direct-to-consumer sales, tourism and winery site development.    MDCV farms over 2,000 acres...

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Rural needs resilience, not waiting games

Rural needs resilience, not waiting games

James Farrell, Head of Rural and Partner at Knight Frank, sets out why estates and farms need to adopt a more business-minded approach, the central theme of the Spring/Summer edition of the firm’s flagship Rural Report.     The scale of change facing the...

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New coop and new appointments for SQC board

New coop and new appointments for SQC board

Scottish Quality Crops (SQC) has added an eighth coop to its board as well as appointing new representatives for the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Scotland and Scotland’s Rural College, SRUC.  SQC’s board has traditionally included...

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IAAS responds to Climate Change Committee report

IAAS responds to Climate Change Committee report

The Climate Change Committee has once again called for significant reductions in ruminant livestock across Scotland. This time a 26% reduction by 2035. The Committee has once again failed to recognise the importance of cattle and sheep farming to the cultural,...

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RevyPro – Velcourt’s T2 partner of choice

RevyPro – Velcourt’s T2 partner of choice

With more than 26 000 ha of wheat and barley in hand across the UK, from Devon to Inverness-shire, Nick Anderson Technical Director of Velcourt, has an eye for detail, which enables him to ensure his fungicide solutions deliver the best profitability. This season he...

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Nutrition Pays Off for Spring Show Win

Nutrition Pays Off for Spring Show Win

Aberdeenshire farmer, Jimmy Dick, has been celebrating after recently winning the overall title for Hoof and Hook at the Royal Northern Agricultural Society Spring Showwith one of his Limousin cross heifers.  Jimmy, who farms with his wife and family at Northton Farm,...

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SEASON UPDATE: It’s T1 time!

SEASON UPDATE: It’s T1 time!

Across the midlands and south east winter crops are looking well, T1 applications are going on and a reasonably kind spring has allowed on farm jobs to get done. Toby Hogsbjerg, Norfolk “So far the season is progressing well,” says Toby Hogsbjerg, Farm Manager at the...

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Perfect pea performance with new growth guide

Perfect pea performance with new growth guide

Pea growers have a new, free resource at their fingertips, thanks to a collaboration between ADAS, BASF, and the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO). The inaugural Pea Growth Guide is a comprehensive booklet, available online and in print, sharing...

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Bill Gray MBE New Chair of CARAS Scotland

Bill Gray MBE New Chair of CARAS Scotland

CARAS the body honouring distinguished service to Scottish agriculture and related sectors has a new Chair. Well respected Midlothian farm and estate manager Bill Gray MBE was appointed at their recent Conference and AGM held at the Royal Highland centre, Ingliston....

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Good beef prices see investment up and new faces at the mart

Good beef prices see investment up and new faces at the mart

The continued strong beef prices at the livestock marts, up almost 25% on last year, is bringing new faces to the ring as well as encouraging beef farmers to “stick in”, says Alan Hutcheon, President of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers (IAAS).   ...

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Ewe Nutrition: Make feed plans pay

Ewe Nutrition: Make feed plans pay

Profitable sheep farming requires effective nutrition, which is the key to healthy, prolific ewes says Ruminant Nutritionist, Steven Eddie of East Coast Viners Animal Nutrition.  The advice was discussed at recent Ewe Nutrition workshops delivered by East Coast...

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