Grassland Development Farm

The meeting commenced with an update of what has occurred on the farm since the last meeting. During June there had been very little rainfall and the farm was looking very short of grass. The decision to start feeding store cattle at grass was almost taken in late June although they always had enough grass in front of them and performance seemed good.

Buchan Beef

Beef cattle is the main enterprise on the two almost neighbouring
Aberdeenshire farms, which host the Quality Meat Scotland Monitor Farm meetings for the Buchan region.

New Monitor Farmers in Far North

A double first in the history of Scotland's monitor farm programme took place recently with the appointment of a monitor farm for the Caithness and Sutherland area.

Pig Monitor Farms

A pioneering approach to monitor farms based on the

commercial operation of two Scottish pig units – one indoor and one outdoor – is proving successful.
Quality

Meat Scotland is the driving force supporting the new three-year pig monitor farm project, with additional funding

provided by the Scottish Government.

Final Monitor Farm Meeting at Fearn

As I sit down to write this I am, to say

the least, jet-lagged following the SNFU conference in Aviemore. I suspect I am not alone. There will be others like

me, throughout the country, who arrived home with an early night firmly on the agenda. Probably the best quote that

I heard this morning was “If I’d thought I was going to be this dry this morning I would have drunk more last

night!” It was as usual a mixture of union business and much needed socialising, which in what can be a solitary

occupation such as ours, is always welcome.