Warm autumn weather has boosted Scottish crops, but challenges remain with pests, disease, and pricing pressures. Morning frosts offer new hope.

Well, with fertiliser prices already sitting well up on values of only a few years ago, the upcoming prospect of an additional £50-£75 per tonne tax being added under the CBAM (Carbon Border ...

Since my last column I’ve been looking at crops and farming in Scotland, Australia and Ukraine and consulting at a distance in Brazil, Mozambique and Paraguay. Farming never stops and what struck me ...

Herd health drives profitability, welfare, and carbon reduction. UK data shows even small improvements in herd health can yield big ...

Spread-a-Bale’s new Side Throw header helps farmers mechanise straw spreading in tight spaces, boosting efficiency in buildings just 2m wide.

Discover how a feeder bedder transformed feeding and bedding efficiency for the MacLeod family at East Uplaw Farm in Ayrshire.

Neogen is the only company offering genomic testing for dairy-cross beef calves. For the dairy farmer, this provides an additional layer to genomic testing. Once dairy replacements have been selected ...

Lamb prices soar with UA Stirling reporting top averages of 310p/kg, driving strong market interest across the board.

Charolais cross bullocks led the proceedings at United Auctions' store cattle sale, having sold to 353.10p per kg for a 328.50kg entry from Newbigging of Craighall, and to £2100 for a 695kg animal ...

The traditional view held by geneticists remains that inbreeding levels are preferable at a 6% or below threshold. It is at 6% and above when geneticists raise concerns that inbreeding has a ...

A project to protect a rare bird has inspired a farming family to help give them a fighting chance. Wyn and Lisa Morton, who run a farm in the Rhydtalog area near Llandegla, have joined a group of ...

Promising results have been achieved from a trial that applied basalt rock dust to spring oats, and the product is being offered free of charge to farmers in selected parts of the region. It is part ...