Farming For a Better Climate

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  • Farming For a Better Climate (FFBC) ran from 2009 to 2024 and has now come to an end. It was a Scottish Government initiative delivered by SAC Consulting, providing practical support to farmers across Scotland. Working with farmers, farm consultants and the latest scientific advice, the project identified and shared practical and realistic ways to improve farm efficiency, increase profitability and at the same time reduce the carbon footprint through practical actions. From working with Climate Change Focus Farms, a Soil Regenerative Agriculture Group and latterly conducting on farm trials, findings from Farming for a Better Climate have been shared widely so as other farmers can benefit. Learn more about how to reduce your farm carbon footprint by visiting Scotland's Farm Advisory Service using the weblink below.
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Farming For a Better Climate (FFBC) ran from 2009 to 2024 and has now come to an end. It was a Scottish Government initiative delivered by SAC Consulting, providing practical support to farmers across Scotland. Working with farmers, farm consultants and the latest scientific advice, the project identified and shared practical and realistic ways to improve farm efficiency, increase profitability and at the same time reduce the carbon footprint through practical actions. From working with Climate Change Focus Farms, a Soil Regenerative Agriculture Group and latterly conducting on farm trials, findings from Farming for a Better Climate have been shared widely so as other farmers can benefit. Learn more about how to reduce your farm carbon footprint by visiting Scotland's Farm Advisory Service using the weblink below.
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  • S3 Ep6: Improving weight data capture and utilisation to drive suckler herd efficiency

    S3 Ep6: Improving weight data capture and utilisation to drive suckler herd efficiency
    2024/03/29
    Interested in hearing more about the benefits of weighing cattle? In this podcast, SAC Consultants Lorna MacPherson and Lorna Shaw are joined by beef farmers Andrew Houstoun of Glenkilrie Farm and Iain Wilkinson of Balgay Farm. The discussion focuses on the use of technology to improve the ease of collecting weight data and how that data can be used to help drive improvements in efficiency. We hear about cow efficiency, with the aim of breeding smaller cows, using data to select heifers for replacements, weaning strategies, creep feeding and growth performance.
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    46 分
  • S3 Ep5: Feed efficiency in beef cattle

    S3 Ep5: Feed efficiency in beef cattle
    2024/03/26
    Feed efficiency is a term that is being increasingly used and discussed in the cattle industry in the UK as well as globally. In this podcast, Dr David Bell (SAC Consulting) talks with Robert Gilchrist (Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society) and Seth Wareing (Stabiliser Cattle Company) and takes an in depth look at this topic and what it means to the beef industry.
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    39 分
  • S3 Ep4: Improving efficiency in sheep flocks, part 3: Maximising productivity at Glensaugh

    S3 Ep4: Improving efficiency in sheep flocks, part 3: Maximising productivity at Glensaugh
    2023/10/27
    This is the final of our Improving efficiency in sheep flocks podcast series.  In this episode we hear SAC Consulting's Senior Beef & Sheep Specialist Kirsten Williams chat with Donald Barrie, Farm manager at Glensaugh, one of the research farms run by the James Hutton Institute.   Donald explains how the farm is operated and the key areas of management for the sheep flocks - health, nutrition and genetics, to ensure maximum productivity.
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    50 分

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