PACKED PROGRAMME

The AgriScot seminar programme for 2019 is packed with interest for agricultural professionals from all sectors. The annual head-to-head between NFUS and Scottish Government will get things started in the NFU Mutual sponsored seminar room one. This seminar will be a must-attend event for anyone hoping to make sense of the prevailing political climate.

The ever-popular Scottish Dairy Hub panel session, in conjunction with Kite Consulting, will also take place in seminar room one and this year will also feature Scottish Government minister Mairi Gougeon MSP, minister for rural affairs and natural environment. In seminar room two, an exciting QMS seminar looking at the Monitor Farm Programme will get things underway. This will be followed by a seminar by EQ Accountants entitled Farm Financial Management and will focus on how accounting packages such as Xero have enabled the leap from historical to real time financial data analysis, which in turn can enable smarter farming and business improvements.

Brodies LLP will round off the afternoon as sponsors of seminar room two by bringing A Taste of Oxford to AgriScot, in partnership with Oxford Farming Conference (OFC). The session will provide an insight into the Hands Free Hectare project from Kit Franklin, senior lecturer of agricultural engineering at Harper Adams, before Tom Rawson, director of Evolution Farming, Caroline Millar, owner of Hideaways and past chairman of the OFC and Clive Phillips of Brodies, will lead a discussion to consider alternative farming structures.