Four businesses from across East Lothian have been awarded much-coveted stars in Great Taste 2020, the world’s most trusted food and drink awards. The four businesses, all extremely different, but each very much embodying quality artisan produce, are now able to display their stars on their product packaging.
READ MORESoilEssentials, the Angus based precision farming specialist, is celebrating a brace of anniversaries in 2020. The business, developers and suppliers of a multitude of pioneering hardware and software technologies to aid farmers and growers, celebrates 20 years of trading this year and also 10 years in partnership with machine control specialists, Trimble Agriculture.
READ MOREAgriScot 2020: Two well-respected competitions in the winter farming calendar will go ahead, almost as normal this year, organisers have announced.
READ MOREAward-winning precision farming specialists SoilEssentials, has stepped in to help boost the technical training of the next generation of skilled agriculturalists.
READ MOREThe Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA), the UK’s only membership body owning Scottish organic standards, has been successful in securing funding from the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (KTIF) for a project that will examine a new product that could help Scottish farmers draw down more carbon into their soils.
READ MOREHopes that at least one major agricultural event would be able to take place in Scotland this year have been dashed, with the announcement AgriScot 2020 has been cancelled.Scheduled to take place on Wednesday 18 November, AgriScot Directors remained optimistic until recently that the event would be able to take place, even if not quite in the usual format.
READ MORECaledonian Marts Ltd, the Stirling based auctioneering firm, has recently completed a £250,000 programme of investment and improvements at their Stirling Auction Centre site.The recent site improvements, phase 2 of an ongoing investment plan, are geared towards broadening the business, giving clients and other site users better facilities, improving security and reducing energy usage.
READ MOREThis week, in what would have been the week of the Royal Highland Show, the OnFARM podcast, being produced in association with Show organisers, RHASS, has welcomed Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.
READ MORESoilEssentials Catch Ups - Angus based precision farming solutions pioneers SoilEssentials have announced that they are going to be arranging catch-up calls and chats to anyone who would have been planning to visit them at this year’s Highland Show in order to say hello, and raise money for charity at the same time.
READ MOREThe latest episode of OnFARM, Scotland’s Rural Podcast, has been working in partnership with RHET (The Royal Highland Education Trust) to provide some rurally inspired home-schooling tips and advice for parents and teachers.
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