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After the highly successful first season, which garnered over 120 thousand views, Quality Meat Scotland’s (QMS) ‘Farm Kid Diaries’ is back for its second season with country kids, and their city counterparts, encouraged to get involved. With consumers reconnecting...

Enjoying health and wellbeing continues to be core to the next advertising campaign from the red meat levy board, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), as it collaborates with outdoorsy influencers and celebrates easy, nutritious cooking at home. In its 2021 Spring campaign,...

Launched in March 2021, The YoungStock is aimed at any budding young farmer, or child interested in farming and the countryside. Packed full of stories and activities, the 32-page publication celebrates the environment, food production and seasonality. Founded by...

Three years ago BASF launched a new SDHI Rhizoctonia solani treatment for potatoes based on the fungicide fluxapyroxad. Last year, with Hummingbird Technologies, BASF measured precise differences in emergence of the treated potato crop compared with azoxystrobin. Paul...

A new partnership between Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and Scottish Craft Butchers, announced during National Butchers' Week, will relieve financial barriers associated with further skills training, helping more young and ambitious butchers to attain the prestigious...

Following official announcements on the roadmap out of lockdown in England, the LEAF Open Farm Sunday team has decided to move the date of its flagship event to Sunday 27th June, two weeks after the original date planned. LOFS Manager, Annabel Shackleton, said: “By...

BLOG - Sarah Mukherjee, Co-Chair of the Oxford Farming Conference 2021-22 Farming will need every tool in the box to face the enormous challenges to come. "The other day, I looked up, on Google Maps, the council house in Harlow in Essex where I spent many of my...

The results of the Wales Rural Youth Research survey found that only 11% of respondents, aged 16-28 years old, feel their voice is heard in decision making. The survey, initiated by Ffion Storer Jones and conducted between September and November 2020, collated the...

In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, Quality Meat Scotland is encouraging farmers to support pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programmes, which are important vehicles to steer young people onto agriculture’s career path. Initiatives such as LANTRA’s...

The Scottish Machinery Rings Association (SMRA) is continuing to play a pivotal role in youth development within the land-based and agricultural industry, with the challenges for 2021 focused on skills development and career opportunities for new entrants and career...

With a surge in graduates applying to be part of the fresh produce industry, Sapphira Waterson of Management Development Services (MDS), says knowing who Generation Z is and what they want from a job can increase productivity and profitability for businesses.  MDS,...

BASF’s spring oilseed rape variety InVigor Performer certainly lived up to its name last year, producing a yield of 2.72 t/ha, and with bonuses for excellent oil contents and quality, made a gross margin of £614.56/ha, at a price of £395/t. Tom Smith, agronomist with...

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is encouraging farmers to continue engaging and sharing the positive conversations around Scotland’s red meat industry, with recent data from Kantar, analysed by QMS, revealing that 912,000 more retail meat purchases were made in Scotland...

Scottish prime cattle prices at price reporting abattoirs have drifted lower over the past month but remain historically high for this time of year with an increase of around 10% compared to 2020, according to the latest market commentary by Quality Meat Scotland...

The Scottish Red Meat Resilience Group has responded in strong opposition to the recommendations in both the DEFRA and Scottish Government consultations on Welfare of Animals at Transport, which closes for submissions this week. The cross industry group, which aims to...

One of the few post-emergence herbicides for beans and the only post-em available for some especially challenging weeds in the pea crop, such as black nightshade, bentazone, is under threat after four decades of use. Commonly used on beans, peas, linseed, alliums and...

Due to a further surge in demand for trainees, Management Development Services (MDS) is calling for ambitious graduates, both recent and from previous years, to apply for its two-year graduate training programme in the food and fresh produce industry. The MDS graduate...

With an estimated two to three million tonnes of plastics used in agriculture each year, eight North East farmers formed a group to explore new, responsible ways, of disposing of, and reducing, the production of waste plastic. The scope of the ‘Thainstone Silage Wrap...

A diverse, female team has been announced to jointly chair the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) – the first time in the event’s 76-year history. Agri-food industry experts Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee were appointed to the voluntary position at the end of the...