DOWN ON THE FARM

New facilities at Scotland’s Rural College’s Craibstone Campus in Aberdeenshire will help promote skills and knowledge to support the agricultural industry across the region. More than £900,000 will be used to create a new engineering workshop and demonstration areas for farm machinery, while a new livestock shed and animal handling equipment will also be put in place. This year students are helping to manage 400 sheep, 100 finishing cattle of mixed breeding, and cereals. The work is set to be finished by the end of 2022. www.sruc.ac.uk