AgriScot News

Farmers are being asked to complete a survey to help reduce methane emissions

Farmers’ views sought on GHG emission reduction
Beef and dairy farmers are being asked for their views on the role of precision livestock farming technologies in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Champion and reserve showmanship winners at Ayr Show – Ellis and John Caldwell, of Ladyyard, Mauchline, aged 15 and 12 respectively !

Ellis and John Caldwell are champion and reserve showmanship winners at Ayr Show

The price of cereals has now become a serious public concern

Cereal prices hit the headlines as public fears grow

QMS won't be following AHDB to introduce levy payer votes

Quality Meat Scotland cannot follow AHDB with elections

78% of the spring calvers gave birth in the first four weeks.

PREMIUM Alex Sanger proves outdoor calving works on the East coast at Prettycur Farm

Andersons calculate farming inputs have risen 30% on average

Never mind inflation at 6% - agflation is running at 30%

BVA President Justine Shotton with Scottish rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon and BVA Scotland president Romain Pizzi

Vets call for joined up thinking on cross border disease control

Supreme champion was the Charolais, Burradon Raquel, from Richard Hassell and Rachel Wyllie, brought out by the Rettie family

PREMIUM Charolais, red and white and Texel take top awards at Fife Show, Cupar

Craig and Katreen Malone's £7800 record priced heifer and calf

Beef breeding cattle record - £7800 paid at Stirling

Scottish Land Estates chief executive Sarah-Jane Laing

ScotGov making life more difficult for Rural Landlords?

Scotland's rural affairs secretary, Mairi Gougeon said the pandemic and the Ukraine war had underlined the need for a strong food supply chain

£10.2m of food producer grants up for grabs

Last year hill farmer David Colthart had 135 unaccounted for deaths in the monitored areas, the vast majority of which he feels were lost through Sea Eagle predation.

PREMIUM How might sheep farmers and sea eagles peacefully share the west coast?

NATIVE BREEDS are set for a strong year at the Highland

Royal Highland Show RHASS preparing for a 'barnstormer' of a Royal Highland Show

American foulbrood afflicts bee hives

American Foulbrood disease found in Blairgowrie bee hive

Collisons between tractors and third parties are 42% more likely during summer months

Summer tractor crashes 42% more likely

Gordon Davidson (News and Online Editor)

This Week's News Gordon Davidson outlines what’s in the News sections of this week’s issue

Ayr Show's red and white champion and reserve overall dairy animal, pictured from left with breeder Robbie Scott and joint owners Salvador Esquierdo and Andrew Struthers

Ayr Show Glorious Ayr Show sets a high standard

Nominations for Agriscot's dairy farm of the year are now open until June 10

AgriScot AgriScot opens nominations for dairy farm of the year

Watch our video to see what's in 14th May issue

What's in this week's issue of The Scottish Farmer...

Envriomentalist George Monbiot calls for livestock farming to stop in his new book

Monbiot calls for livestock farming to be abolished

US dairy farmers stand to gain €55m over DeLaval robot milker failings

DeLaval ordered to pay $55m compensation to US dairy farmers

SAF claim numbers are similar to last year

SAF applications steady on the year

Johnny Watson of Watson Seeds, East Linton and James Lawrie of Cuthill Towers inspecting the first cut of the 2022 silage season, with D Scobbie & Son silage contractor

Gallery Inspecting the first cut at Cuthill Towers

Loch Lomond and the Trossachs was the last National Park designation in Scotland

Where will Scotland's next National Park be?

EAGER COWS on the Drimnin Estate, Morvern, near Oban, waiting for their breakfast of organic draff, a bi-product from the nearby Nc'nean Distillery whisky

Gallery A taste of the good stuff

A goat farm has been ordered to pay £200,000 in fines and compensation after a worker died on site

Yorkshire goat farm ordered to pay £200,000 for failings which lead to worker's death

RELAXING IN her paddock, two-year-old Clydesdale filly Pacemuir Clementine is pictured having a good roll and smiling in the process (Pic: Heather Steel)

Gallery A picture of horsey happiness

Business owner Malcolm Morrison

Forestry Sawmill safety first and foremost

Fruit workers happy to be back in the Strawberry tunnels near Blairgowrie, Perthshire (Pic: Ron Stephen)

Fab four in the fruit tunnel

GMG Energy is a significant employer in its remote part of Sutherland

Far north sawmill invests in carbon reduction

Somerset Charrington revisiting the spot where the sea eagle took the live lamb

PREMIUM Sea eagle attacks on live lambs leave west coast farmers despondent

Silage Management - Targeting high quality silage

Sponsored Silage Management - Targeting high quality silage

Overall champion of champions, Stewart and Lynsey Bett's commercial champion, Sexy Spice

Sexy Spice lands supreme overall at highly successful Ayr Show

Robert Gilchrist Aberdeen Angus CEO believes grass finishing cattle leaves the best margin as cereal prices rocket

Focus on grass finishing to protect margins

Mr Boyd, who received a custodial sentence for a previous offence, was sentenced at Banff Sheriff Court

NI fraudster sentenced to pay £7000 for A-A bulls

John Sleigh (Northern Editor)

This Week's News John Sleigh outlines what’s in the news sections of this week’s issue

Girls coming home for calving

Video of the Day The Girls come home for calving

Existing pipework at the INEOS FPS Kinneil site

Hydrogen distribution network trial gets underway

SEPARATING COMMERCIAL forestry from trees planted solely for carbon capture should lead to greater use of broadleaves and native species

Carbon Code clamps down on forestry land 'gold rush'

SRUC principal Prof Wayne Powell

SRUC agri-research ranked as UK number one

Rhys Jenkins, oictured here with his family, is running the South Wales trial of what he described as the 'holy grail' crop, sunergy

Resilient maize alternative energy crop under trial

Peter Kennedy farms 3000 acres on a mix of owned, rented and contract farmed land

PREMIUM Weather makes for a good calving out west

In Chernihiv, Ukraine, a granary employee unloads a track carrying wheat

Trains to start hauling Ukraine grain

Beef Shorthorn judge Bobby Landers from Wigtownshire congratulates his first class winner Tommy Sands from Caramba Shorthorns in Galway at the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland (Pic: Chris McCullough)

Bobby picks the winners at Balmoral

The Danish pig herd has contracted by over 5%

Danish pig herd contracts by over 5%

Forestry Journal Scotland

Let's teach our children about trees – and forestry jobs

Tracey Roan joins NFUS as regional manager for Dumfries and Galloway

UK scientists are keen to exploit new methods of plant breeding

UK backs gene edited crops

Hormone implants to encourage growth in beef cattle are common practice on the other side of the Atlantic

Carmichael claims victory on hormone-treated beef

Farmers fear the cost of compliance to new slurry rules could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds

Union in talks to lessen impact of new slurry rules

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A fatal accident inquiry has found that young Turriff farmer Caroline Rennie died after attempting to jump onto a moving tractor before falling and being killed

Inquiry hears that young farmer died after attempting to get onto a moving tractor

Shireen Chambers MBE

Tree-planting charity appoints new chief

Paddy and Jane Murphy with Lynne Calder from The Three Little Bakers who have been crowned Scottish Baker of the Year 2022/23

The Three Little Bakers of Inverness crowned Scottish Baker of the Year