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Improving Dairy Farm Productivity - Farmers Meeting, Carrutherston

Published: 06 Feb 2012

Looking over the dyke has always been a popular pastime with farmers, whether it be to study a neighbours crops or another man’s stock. SW dairy farmers will get a special chance to do that when progressive dairy farmer Alistair Marshall hosts an event on his Hardgrove Farm at Carrutherstown, just off the A75. Organised by SAC the free event not only offers a chance to see how they do things at Hardgrove but also discuss some practical approaches to improving productivity and cutting costs.

Tackling Calf Survival and Performance – Expert Advice at Castle Douglas Farmers Meeting

Published: 06 Feb 2012

While beef cattle prices are at levels farmers haven’t seen in years, rising production costs still make it difficult for many to make a profit without the subsidy from their single farm payment. It makes addressing costs all the more important, in particular the losses due to calf death and disease, which can be as high as £80 a cow mated in a 100 cow herd.

Tackling Calf Survival and Performance – Expert Advice at Stirling Farmers Meeting

Published: 06 Feb 2012

While beef cattle prices are at levels farmers haven’t seen in years, rising production costs still make it difficult for many to make a profit without the subsidy from their single farm payment. It makes addressing costs all the more important, in particular the losses due to calf death and disease, which can be as high as £80 a cow mated in a 100 cow herd.

High Hopes for Herd Books At Perth Bull Sales

Published: 06 Feb 2012

A piece of cattle breeding history will go under the hammer at Perth Bull Sales today (6 February) in the form of 50 volumes of Coates’s Herd Books, detailing the pedigrees of British Shorthorns from 1876 to 1925.

SAC and UWS Launch New Riverside Campus

Published: 31 Jan 2012

SAC and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have officially launched their new £81 million Riverside Campus in Ayr.

SAC Nurtures Its French Affair

Published: 31 Jan 2012

A recent visit by SAC researchers to the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) has signalled an exciting new phase in the organisations’ ongoing partnership.