The call has gone out to try to reunite former students and friends of Newton Rigg College, as a former lecturer seeks to relaunch the Newton Rigg Society.
Below are the winners of the QMS mother's day competition, with the winners each receiving the new QMS Red Meat Cook Book, and a branded apron. Congratulations to all the winners, and your prizes should be winging its way to you soon.
Scotland is renowned for its fine food and drink sector, but there is no point in producing the most tantalising premium food products, if nobody knows your company exists.
Before I became the wife of a Scottish farmer on a West Coast island, I had a rose-tinted view of what a farm kitchen would look like: lambs reviving in the bottom of the Aga.
Every year at this time, we have the usual shot lettuce standing three foot tall, courgettes needing eaten and a row of onions that are practically getting up and walking off the soil themselves.
After the death of his father, William MacConnachie looked around High Dalrioch holding, just outside Campbelltown, and surveyed what had been left to him in succession.
Alternative versions of the foot-and-mouth saga were proliferating throughout the media, this week 10 years ago, with numerous reports alleging that, far from being over, the outbreak had spread way beyond its official boundaries.
A QUARTER of a century ago, in May 1986, the disaster at Russia's Chernobyl Nuclear Plant was dominating the headlines and, as Glenluce farmer's wife Elizabeth McDowall remembers it, the sky over Scotland had a distinctly ominous hue.
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.
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.
