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Harvest holidays memories wanted

Hopscotch Films have been in touch to ask our readers to help them, as they are making a series for BBC Scotland about ‘The Films of Scotland’ – a collection of around 160 documentaries made between 1938 and 1982.

Spring poem

I walk the fields and look around at frost- bleached colours grey and brown

All dressed up for the ball!

THIS PICTURE from circa 1951/1952 is of Renfrewshire agricultural machinery dealers, Hamilton Bros annual dinner dance.

Lifestyle Features

Special feature on Scotland’s three cold pressed rapeseed oil producers

Extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil – Scottish, natural and healthy

Ola Oils - Inverurie

Just following their own curiosity sparked a business idea for John and Connie Sorrie, of Westfield Farms, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.

Glendaveney oil - Peterhead

SpotTing a gap in the market and taking the necessary steps to make the most of the opportunity is the key to success as far as business entrepreneurs are concerned.

Summer Harvest oil - Perthshire

Summer Harvest cold pressed oil which comes from Ferneyfold Farm, in Madderty, Perthshire, is a diversification project taken on by Mark Bush when he came to Scotland in 2007, to live with his new wife Margaret Cameron, whose family have been farming at Ferneyfold for more than 50 years.

Wee Wellie Wearers

The winners of the latest ‘wee wellie wearers’ competition

Recipes

Quick fry mango turkey and coriander

There is always going to be an excess of turkey after Christmas day and this recipe is a quick cook solution which won’t put any pressure on your waist line at just 281 calories.

Italian Style Lamb’s Liver with Pasta (Offal)

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Yesteryear

Processors betray beef quality

UK BEEF farmers spent between 18 and 30 months producing beasts of the highest quality, only for their meat to be ruined by four or five days of careless processing, it was claimed this week 10 years ago.

Kill or cure

COMPULSORY ELECTRONIC tagging for sheep could “kill or cure” the Scottish sheep industry – and it was anticipated to be coming sooner than many would expect, this week 10 years ago.

Blair offers crumbs of cold comfort

PRIME MINISTER, Tony Blair, went halfway towards committing the government to a U-turn on offering more aid to hard-pressed farmers, this week in 2000, and for good measure, threw in a further £100m per year concession by dumping a proposed pesticides tax.