OnFARM Podcast

January 11, 2021

OnFARM Podcast: "Fury" over Brexit's food and farming impacts

Brexit "fury" among fish landers, a "frustrating" seed potato ban, and costly red tape for businesses that rely on immigrant labour.

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January 4, 2021

OnFARM Podcast: Revisiting RHET - for OnFARM's first birthday!

It is exactly one year since we published our first-ever OnFARM episode - a recording with kids from Queensferry primary school on a (pre-Covid) farm visit with the food and farming education charity Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET).

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December 28, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Passing the baton: the Moredun chairmen chat

We're rounding off 2020 by eavesdropping on a chat between the Moredun Foundation's outgoing chairman Ian Duncan Millar, and his successor Gareth Baird.Ian chose to retire at the end of 2020 so he could end on the high point of a year of centenary festivities.

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December 21, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Moredun's Centenary: you're invited to a celebration

You're on the guestlist for a (virtual) drinks reception to celebrate 100 years of Scotland's Moredun Research Institute!Just press play to attend, enjoy the (virtual) free booze and canapes, and mingle with the great and the good of livestock science.

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December 14, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Farm succession: plan while you can

Succession planning is a nettle that all farming families need to grasp. You just never know what is around the corner. But it's a sensitive subject, fraught with legal, technical and emotional difficulties - so Monty has enlisted law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn to talk through the issues.

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December 7, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Moredun on the Cutting Edge

The Moredun Research Institute has come a long way since it was set up by Scottish farmers in 1920, in a bid to cut devastating livestock losses.

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November 30, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Moredun's 100 years of livestock health

In 1920, a visionary group of Scottish farmers came together to work out how to cut alarmingly high rates of livestock losses. Together, they formed ADRA - the Animal Diseases Research Association.

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November 23, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: SAOS on farming's climate change challenge: Part 1

All too often, farmers and food producers are portrayed as villains on climate change. While there is work to do, the industry's positive stories too often go untold.

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November 16, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Be a price-maker, not a price-taker - with dairy farmer Rory Christie

Rory Christie farms in Wigtownshire alongside his brother, and is on the boards of both the Milk Suppliers Association (MSA) and the co-op umbrella organisation SAOS.

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November 9, 2020

OnFARM Podcast: Converting from conventional to organic farming with SOPA

What does it take to convert from conventional to organic farming? What are the benefits and pitfalls of making the switch, and what really captures people’s passion along the way?

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