July 2023

Like so many of our clients, Scene & Herd team members are juggling family responsibilities alongside our business and farming commitments.  Please be assured that if we are on a call and your children need you, or someone comes to the door, we'll be happy to wait or rearrange.  We know school holidays can be a struggle so let’s all support each other!

News

Our most recent OnFARM Podcast episodes have included:

• Ringside at Fife Show with the Gillespie Macandrew team
• Feuds, disputes, and arguments: how mediation can help
• Organic farming: 'The Road Ahead' SOPA conference
• RHET chairman's cycle challenge
• Golden Shears world shearing championships at the Royal Highland Show
• Royal Highland Show 2023: OnFARM round-up
• Helping It Happen awards from SLE: what it means to win

To celebrate our 150th OnFARM episode, in conjunction with Bell Ingram, we gave Highland Show go-ers the chance to pitch us their ideas for future podcast subjects. Contenders included:

• 100 years of the Highland Pony Society
• Vertical farming with The Rowett Institute
• Stranraer Show
• Sustainable seafood, also with the Rowett Institute
• Pickups for Peace, a farmer-led charity taking trucks and supplies in convoy to Ukraine
• The Perthshire team making and exporting lifesize plastic cows around the world

The winning pitch was made by Caithness District Young Farmers Club to celebrate the founding of Scotland's first young farmers' club 100 years ago.

The Great British Food Awards celebrate the finest home-grown ingredients.  Enter here by 24 July.

SAOS, NFU Scotland and NFU Mutual have come together once again to offer an opportunity for agribusinesses of all sizes to place greater emphasis on investing in leadership skills development through the hugely successful Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders (GTL) programme.  Scottish agriculture has always faced challenges and uncertainty with boldness and innovation, but current times can best be managed by adding investment in people, adaptability, and strategic thinking to the sector’s ‘toolkit’.  READ MORE

August Diary Dates

3rd - 4th (5 a.m. - 5 a.m.) - 24 Hours in Farming is the agricultural industry’s biggest online event with an audience reach of more than 112 million.  Get involved by sharing your day using the hashtag #Farm24.

‍8th - This Scottish Qualifications Results Day, some young people may feel disheartened by their exam results. Through tweets, blog posts and videos, your organisation can show that many people in interesting job roles across Scotland may have taken a non-traditional path and that there is #NoWrongPath.

‍19th - The demand for soy and palm oil is causing the destruction of the rainforest where orangutans live. World Orangutan Day is a great opportunity to promote local, sustainable alternatives.

Whatever you do during August, be sure to share on your social media, newsletters and websites - and if you need help, let us know.‍