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The popular Business Skills award is set to return to the AgriScot event for 2022.

There are no hard and fast rules to diversification and for these businesses ‘thinking outside the box’ has delivered a winning formula for diversification success.

Family faming business Pipers Farm was recently announced as an Observer Food Monthly award winner, an accolade testament to its deep-rooted sustainability values that have not changed since it was founded more than 30 years ago. Hannah Park finds out more.

A new automated fodder-growing system could be available to UK farms in the near future if prototype funding is secured.

A co-ordinated, structured approach is helping farmer members of a vet-led herd health group to improve calf health and reduce antibiotic use.

Food, preparation and nutrition teacher Michaela Ryan is passionate about widening the conversation in her classes to cover where food comes from and how it is produced.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø are being reminded of the risk of botulism this season after soaring fertiliser prices led to an increase in the use of poultry litter on grass crops.

North Country Cheviot and commercial sheep breeder Bob King and family have long been turning out quality breeding stock for commercial markets.

The Blue Texel is proving itself as a multi-functional breed for the Coles family, producing quality breeding stock alongside commercial finishing animals.