The Scottish Farmer - 2022-12-03

• Ag Bill can deliver
• New science being applied too slowly
• ‘Bar set high’ for new RL varieties
• Trial hopes to turn malting barley ‘green’
• New Zealand research claims food miles adds ‘few emissions’ to its meat
• Worm warning
• Bird flu wipes out a third of free-range Christmas turkeys
• New Scottish factory to make ‘green’ cattle feed
• Former chief ‘spook’ says UK’s national food security is vital
• More Scottish seed tatties head to Egypt
• Doing a carbon audit with some trepidatio­n
• Being sold a turkey?
• Sir Ian Grant’s role in a verifying a record-breaking wheat crop
• Crofting punches well above its ‘weight’
• Why we can’t ignore our food security
• Judy McGowan
• Richard Percy Wear
• In an interview with The SF’s Kayley Kennedy, Doddie spoke candidly about how the news of his disease had affected him and how his ‘farming life’ was an important ‘get away from it all’ for him. Here’s a shortened extract from that interview:
• Agri conference hailed huge success
• Busy day for the North Region’s Agri Competitio­ns Day at Quoybrae
• Keep it simple on ‘grain passports’
• Moonlight shines for James
• Sapphire is the jewel of a big calf show
• Baillie’s Beltex beat the rest
• Blue Texels and Texels lead bumper pedigree lamb line up
• Uppermill oats take top award at LiveScot
• Baillies produce dairy supreme with fourth calver
• Natural wooden stick tops large number of entries
• Bumper show of Black Beauties
• Bonanza females reach 10,000gns
• Wilson wins again
• LEADING awards
• Drumnahive Beltex star amongst the lambs
• Maui wins Aberdeen Christmas Classic Rising Stars
• JCB Commercial take home the supreme title
• Mirk sails to Peebles win
• Welsh Winter Fair record of £36,000 paid for reserve
• Scottish premium is lost!
• Sheep trade rebounds for Christmas
• Record online machinery sale topped at £35,400
• Suffolk Supremes reach 2600gns at Lanark
• Texel record at Christmas Classic
• Bumper show at Borderway
• LEADING awards
• LEADING awards:
• LEADING prices
• LEADING prices
• LEADING prices
• Limousins lead at Hexham show
• Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) News
• Thainstone
• Commercial forestry sales values jump 15%
• D and R Rural’s new forestry expert
• Renewables can help slash energy costs
• Napier Uni student wins renewables prize
• Biogas proves a hot topic at Denmark’s Agromek
• Getting the most from muck and slurry
• Slurry and muck equipment spread widely at EuroTier
• Precision decisions for latest slurry rules
• English slurry storage scheme opens
• TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
• A warm welcome in the party sheds!

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