Rural Britain is a wonderful assortment of farms, estates, hamlets, villages, forests and moors, lochs and valleys. Our stunning scenery, close communities and wonderful rural businesses provide an idyllic lifestyle for many, but rural life can also throw up some pretty unique challenges.
The Rural Scene (the Scene & Herd rural blog and news updates) looks at what’s new, what’s relevant, what’s tasty, what’s fun and what’s challenging about life in the Great British Countryside. We offer an insider insight into rural Britain, highlighting some of the exceptional people, businesses and innovations we believe that everybody should know about.
An in-person AgriScot event is coming soon! The farm business event is returning to the Royal Highland Showground on Weds 9th Feb. In this episode Monty hears from AgriScot chairman Robert Neill, while Anna re-visits the last AgriScot event that took place, back in 2019.
READ MOREThree finalists have emerged from the recent qualifying heats of the AgriScot Business Skills Competition.Five competitors took part in the north regional heat and six in the south. These regional heats were held on-farm, with competitors quizzed by the host farmers and independent judges to assess their practical farming expertise and business knowledge.
READ MOREAngus Elder is a third-generation organic veg and cereals farmer at Chapel Organics in East Lothian. Anna visited Angus at his farm for a tour and a chat, to learn about his farm enterprise growing crops and produce, primarily for organic veg box schemes.
READ MOREFor you only, we are offering a 50 per cent discount on our first two OnFARM Academy training courses if you pre-order them before 1 January 2022. We don’t launch the OnFARM Academy online training until early 2022. However, we wanted to give our loyal newsletter readers the chance of a unique discount before launch. These courses are running with a 50% discount until 1 January so make sure you sign up straight away so that you don’t have to pay full price.
READ MOREAnna explores the benefits of collaboration in Scottish food and farming - meeting representatives from cheese producers, flower growers, and apple growers, who have all formed collaborative groups, with the help of Scottish farming's co-op umbrella organisation SAOS.
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