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News

GFY Community Innovation Campus

It’s been a while since we last updated you, please forgive us we have been a bit busy!

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Who Pressed the World Reset Button ?

Fast forward to late summer 2021 and one sunny morning we wake up and switch on the news … “The Covid-19 pandemic is officially over, all restrictions are lifted, we can go back to life as normal” Yes, I can guarantee the nightmare will be confined to the history books, but did we learn anything from this history lesson?

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We Need Some Direction for Scottish Agriculture - Please?

Headlines from the farming press this week included items such as “Farmer bashing continues on TV” … “Labour shortages and a Scottish Visa System?

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Food Security Must Be Top Of The Agenda in 2020 and Beyond

So … Finally, the election is over, Brexit is on the way and every day will be like Christmas if Boris Johnson is to be believed?

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Are We Doing Our Bit to Save the Planet?

We’re into December and apart from the minor business of some election going on, it’s the season for Christmas adverts.

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Farming Food and Drink All One

In this edition of Farming North, I was hoping to report that Brexit had finally happened, and we could all now move on with some idea of what the future might hold … But instead we now face a General Election in mid- December and who knows what after that?

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Western Isles Challenges

Just a couple of weeks ago I took a call from Richard Tarves at e-Sgoil, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.

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Village news

This morning as I collected my milk, eggs and newspaper from our local village store, I stopped to survey the range of vehicles and other various modes of transport in the car park … There was a farm telehandler, a huge agricultural tractor, an old fashioned long wheelbase Land Rover, a battered old pick-up truck, a couple of smaller family cars, a German and a Netherlands registered car and 2 small bikes.

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Deputy First Minister's Visit to Nairn

“An Exciting Model for the Future of Education” … Deputy First Minister, John Swinney telling us personally how much he appreciates what we at The Farmer Jones Academy (FJA) are doing with our pro-active approach to delivering over 40 Foundation Apprenticeships (FA’s) in Food and Drink Technology across the Highlands.

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Challenges Ahead for Farming

Over the past month or so, the Scottish Government have been busy re-stating their aim to double the value of Scottish Food and Drink by 2030.

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Unacceptable Accidents in Farming

There have been no shortage of headlines since my last column and apart from the usual - Hard vs.

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Inaction Causing Crisis

“Beef Slump” … That headline faced me this week as I ripped open the packaging on one of my weekly farming papers.

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Groundhog Day

Last weekend, in an effort to escape the troubles of the real world, we sat down and looked for an old classic film to watch and the conversation went like this… “Have you ever seen Groundhog Day?"… "No, but I’ve just seen the news and I feel like we’re living it at the moment!” In the last edition of Farming North, I was looking forward to life for farmers after Brexit.

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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

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Climate Change & Farming

“We all have a duty to do whatever we can to help save our planet from global warming” …The words of David Attenborough speaking last week in the BBC Documentary “Climate Change – The Facts”.

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Speed of Change

In this edition of Farming North, I am going to focus on life for farmers after Brexit.

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Seismic Changes in Store for Farmers

The findings of a recent report into the future of farming quoted some rather alarming statistics … In 1920 each farmer fed 19 people, by 1970 the number fed by each and every farmer was 26, but by 2013 a single farmer fed 155 people.

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Farming North - Foundation Apprentices Needed

When I first ventured into the world of commercial radio, we were taught how the business worked and how the sales team were just as important to the station as the on-air presenters.

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A Look Forward to 2050

Regular readers of this column will know that at this time of year I like to make some predictions of the future for farming.

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Inspiring the Next Generation

It’s the time of year when survey results seem to drop into my inbox with increasing speed and most of them probably as a result of businesses reviewing their plans for next year.

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Farming North - Brexit and Mental Health

With harvest 2018 complete, the grain is in store and already new crops are in the ground and ready to face the worst that winter might throw at them.

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Agricultural Census Reveals More Trouble Ahead for Scotgov

The 2018 agricultural census was published in October and given the weather we’ve suffered over the past 12 months, the figures confirmed what most of us in agriculture had feared, with the census headline “Extreme Weather Events Hit Virtually Every Sector in Scottish Agriculture”.

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A Farmer's Headache - Managing Changing Seasons and Brexit

How can two spring seasons be so different?

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The Circle of Countryside Life

I’ve spent some time speaking to our Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Fergus Ewing at the various agricultural shows this summer and one topic that came up time after time in conversation was the fact that no less than 85% of farmland in Scotland is classified as Less Favoured Area (LFA).

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Fast Changing Farming Scene

It was a strange moment as I hung up my headphones for the last time in Studio A at MFR last week … after all it had been 13 years since I walked into that same studio and made the first programme.

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Drought and Food Shortages

Sitting in my non air-conditioned office as I write this, it is hard to escape the facts that once again the food production cycle comes at the mercy of the weather.

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The Norwegian Model for Scottish Farming

This year Me and Mrs.

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RHS and FJA Educating Schoolchildren with the value of food

The sun shone and over the four days from 21st to 24th June a crowd of nearly 200,000 visitors went through the turnstiles at The Royal Highland Show (RHS) in Edinburgh.

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B-Day

There are some items which come around regularly on my MFR and Radio Borders farming programmes … some of which are fairly easy to present and others which give me a cause for concern about the future of farming, not only in Scotland, but right across the UK.

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The future for roast dinners

The news that Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has launched a campaign to boost the popularity of traditional roast meat should come as no surprise to anyone involved in the beef industry.

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Alexa and the future of farming

There’s a new woman come into my life … She’s rather small, lives in the kitchen and seems to be very clever at doing lots of things.

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Meet Dennis Overton - the new chair at Scotland Food & Drink

I was delighted last week to get the chance to meet Dennis Overton, who is set to become Chairman of Scotland Food and Drink (SF&D) in April.

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Superfoods... The environment and feeding ourselves

Yesterday my eyes were drawn to a story about the latest research into so-called super foods … I’ve been intrigued by these super foods ever since I interviewed a celebrity chef who got excited by blueberries and their detoxification qualities.

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Farming 2017 into 2018

2017 … What a year that was!

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Organics vs Non-Organics row

“A fresh row has broken out” … That’s all too often a headline I find myself using on my MFR farming programme and this week is no exception.

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Glysophate - the debate

Glyphosate … how did a simple weed killer become such an emotive topic?

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Brexit - Deal … Or No Deal?

So many headlines containing the words “No Deal on Brexit” have dropped into my inbox over the past few weeks that I wonder if there is anything else happening in the world!

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Farmers are always moaning about the weather

“Farmers are always moaning about the weather” was the passing comment from another customer in my local village shop this morning and for the summer of 2017 that’s probably a fair assessment of how things have turned out.

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What will you be eating after March 2019?

So after a few false starts, we are finally getting into some proper negotiations about life after Europe.

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The truth about chlorinated chicken

“Top Tory MEP Daniel Hannan tells people to stop moaning about Chlorinated Chicken” That’s one of the most deeply disturbing headlines I’ve come across for a long time but it doesn’t surprise me that in amongst all the arguments surrounding Brexit, the prospect of chlorinated chicken imports from the USA are hitting the headlines.

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Polling day approaches for "Brexit Election"

So, here we go into the final straight of the latest race to the polling booths.

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Could the rise of the Food Assembly solve the UK's self-sufficiency problem?

“The UK is only 52% self–sufficient in food” That was a headline which caught my attention last week and the 52% self-sufficiency figure came from a report published by global food experts at the University of Leeds.

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