Nominations for dairy farm of the year opened up to public

In a change of format, the organisers are calling for nominations from the farming industry for Agriscot’s Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year award.

The long-running award, part of a stable of “farm of the year” titles organised by Agriscot and presented at the annual farm business event, has previously seen all milk-recorded dairy farms automatically entered.

For 2018 the Agris- cot directors this week announced that they will be bringing the Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year title in line with their other awards and open it up for public nomination.

“We are delighted that the Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year award will now follow the same steps as our other awards, i.e. it will be open for entry to every dairy farm in Scotland,” said Agriscot chairman, Robert Neill.

“Everyone now has the chance to nominate worthy dairy farms. I believe this is an exciting opportunity for advisors, suppliers and others in the industry to put forward their customers and clients, and of course dairy farmers are welcome to nominate their own farm – an award like this is a great way to give recognition for a hardworking team or family.”

He said the judging team wanted to hear from dairy farms who may be doing something a bit different in terms of innovation, diversification or in their efforts to promote and sustain their business.”