Posted on July 3, 2018
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“This house believes in paying farmers for more than food.” This is the motion that we, the panel, were presented with – to argue for or against – in the Oxford Farming Conference‘s debate at the 2018 Royal Highland Show on the 21st of… Continue Reading “Royal Highland Show: Oxford Farming Conference 2018”
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Category: Crofting, Farming, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Africa, Agriculture, CAP, Cattle, Collaboration, Common Agricultural Policy, Community, Cooperation, Economic, Ecosystem Services, Environmental, EU, Farming, Fisheries, Flow Country, Food, Food Production, Forestry, High Nature Value farming, HNV, HNV farming, Hunting, Innovation, Integrated Land Management, Integration, Land management, Landbruk, Local, Norway, Oxford Farming Conference, Peatland, Perverse Incentive, Public Goods, Regenerative Grazing, Resilience, Rewilding, RHS2018, Royal Highland Show, Scottish Land Use Strategy, Sheep, Social, Soil, Soil Degredation, Soil Erosion, Subsidy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Intensification, Uganda, Wild
Posted on May 14, 2015
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I wrote this piece on High Nature Value farming in August 2013. It was originally written to go in The Northern Times but never went to print. I did it for the RSPB hence the emphasis on them. You can find further information on the High Nature Value Farming website.… Continue Reading “High Nature Value Farming in Durness”
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Category: Conservation, Crofting, FarmingTags: Aberdeen Angus, Balnakeil, Bird watching, Cheviots, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Ecology, Environment, Farming, Farmland waders, Great-yellow bumblebee, Habitat, Habitat management, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV, HNV farming, Holyrood, Land use, Less Favoured Areas, LFASS, Lifestyle, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Rural, Rural Priorities, Scottish Government, Sheep, SRDP, Sutherland
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Day 2: The next day saw a fresh set of workshops and talks. We kicked off with a talk by Ronnie Eunson, a crofter from Shetland specialising in breeding Shetland Cattle. This was a very engaging talk following Ronnie’s journey from keeping Texel’s and… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt.2)”
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Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Debate, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Great-yellow bumblebee, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV farming, Kylesku, Land use, Machair, Pigs, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Shetland, Shetland cattle, Stewardship, Tamworth, Uist
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