The Duncanson family at Marchbank Farm, Beattock, have taken significant steps over the years to maximise productivity from their sheep flock and were ideal hosts for a recent Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) workshop entitled, 'Are Ewe Ready to Breed?'
If I say shooting school, what does it bring to mind? To me it’s guns. But at The Roxburghe Shooting school you are likely to be shooting arrows, bullets, tomahawks and maybe even hitting balls.
We now, kind of, to use jargon, know where we are going in terms of agricultural support after Brexit.
The ever popular Farmers and Farmers Wives Choir have taken one of their well loved songs from their live performances and turned it into a digital download for charity.
As part of the latest Scotch lamb promotion, QMS have offered us some terrific, lamb-based, recipes to try at home.
It's a lovely concept to provide your guests with the opportunity to plant wildflower seeds that help save our bees. The white seed packet is 100% recycled and measures 9x12 cm. It is personalised with the details of the couple and the date etc on the back. The wildflower seeds inside are perfect for our native bees – Field Scabious, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Selfheal and Lesser Knapweed. All are British wildflower species and the seeds have been grown in the UK. The plants are also perennial so will come back year after year. The sowing instructions for the seeds are on the back of the packet.
