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Co-ops claim cheese championships

MILK CO-OPS First Milk and Milk Link chalked up major awards at the Nantwich International Cheese Show – the ‘world cup’ of cheese shows, attracting over 3200 cheeses worldwide.

Funding business skills for rural business women

Lantra, the Sector Skills Council for environmental and land-based industries has submitted a bid to help fund a new programme – ‘Business Skills for Rural Women’ which will be rolled out across eight areas in Scotland.

Share rural supersitions at the heavy horse show this weekend

Slimmers step onto the scales for the last time

Just twelve months ago, at The Royal Highland Show, five well known faces from the world of agriculture agreed to join Scottish Slimmers in their quest to raise the awareness of the difficulties that men face when trying to lose weight.

First for Philly

Only in The Scottish Farmer bake off, could you find the Gallagher brothers, Elvis, and Bugs Bunny all in the same tent as royalty.

Philippa triumphs in celebrity cake competition

By Karen Carruth
The Scottish Farmer's annual cake competition resulted in a nail biting climax this afternoon with Philippa Stephen's Bugs Bunny cake taking the top prize. Second was Catherine Laurenson with an impressive 'Welcome to Las Vegas, Elvis' cake, and third was taken by last year's winner Lynsey Clark with her Celebrity split cake featuring the Gallacher brothers from Oasis.

Foodies in for a real treat at the Highland

WITH MORE than 90% of the showgoing audience declaring that the food hall is one of the highlights of the weekend, organisers have pulled out all the stops to further impress with the best of quality produce that Scotland has to offer.

An action packed show planned for this year

Gardening Scotland this weekend

NO MATTER what size of garden you have, there will be something at Gardening Scotland 2010 this weekend to help improve your very own ‘great outdoors’.

New haggis and neeps sausage at Craigies!

Craigie’s Farm Deli and Café in South Queensferry has just announced the creation of a brand new sausage flavour in their café and butchery, in what is thought to be a world first!

Help raise funds to build a permanent memorial

Just last year the government finally recognised the tremendous selfless efforts of thousands of women who worked on the home front to provide food and timber during World War II as part of the Women’s Land Army.

Book review: Scotland’s Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches

Book edited by Elaine M Edwards

Land Girls - Jean Forbes Paterson – former land girl

Jean Forbes Paterson, now 79, joined the Land Army when she was just out of school at 15 and a half.

Laurieknow gets their wellies on for charity

The children of p4 at Laurieknow Primary School in Dumfries have been very busy putting together a Wacky Wellies Fun Day.

Deeside Smokehouse wins food award

The Deeside Smokehouse of Dinnet, Aberdeenshire, has scooped a first place at this year’s Grampian Food Forum innovation awards for its hand cured wild game products.

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