Posted on February 3, 2021 by Shona Warwick
Andrew Campbell is 16 years old and lives on a farm in Whithorn, which is a 400 acre mixed farm, with 220 sucklers, 160 ewes including 40 pedigree Texels and...
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Posted on February 18, 2020 by Hannah D'Mellow
Fraser undertook a Modern Apprenticeship at Bryson Tractors in Lanark. Fraser is from a farming background and was involved in agricultural machinery from a very young age as his family...
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Posted on November 22, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow
Joanna Foubister is a Trainee Agricultural Consultant at the SAC Consulting Office in Stonehaven. “I applied to study SRUC’s MSc Agricultural Professional Practice after deciding I wanted to pursue a career...
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Posted on June 20, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow
Clean air day (21st June) seems a good day to highlight the contribution SRUC is making to the Farming for a Better Climate programme. Farming for a Better Climate (FFBC)...
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Posted on March 6, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow
Mathew Howie currently works at J T Walkers Agricultural Engineering , completing his Modern Apprenticeship with SRUC in Land-Based Engineering (Agricultural Machinery). Mathew said “I was interested in tractors from...
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Posted on December 15, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow
“Like many people leaving school I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do with my life. I decided to take a year out before applying for courses and,...
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Posted on November 7, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow
Each summer, SAC Consulting offers three students the chance to undertake a summer placement at one of their offices around the country. Students who apply are in Year 3 going...
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Posted on October 16, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow
There was an interesting article in The Guardian recently which highlights the plight of some of our relied-upon food crops, brought on by external and environmental impacts such as climate...
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Posted on August 1, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow
The Principal & Chief Executive of SRUC, Professor Wayne Powell, will sit on the new Women in Agriculture taskforce announced at the Royal Highland Show by the First Minister. The...
Posted on June 20, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow
Come and visit the SRUC building at the Royal Highland Show this year – we’ll have a lot going on! Outside the SRUC building (just on the main ring) you...
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