Integrated Pest Management and the Voluntary Initiative
How can you improve pesticide management on farm?
How can you improve pesticide management on farm? In this podcast we chat with Neal…
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Pond creations on farms
Harry Fisher, Ecological Consultant, SAC Consulting
Everyone loves a win-win, and when it comes to land management that can benefit biodiversity…
SAOS explores potato irrigation innovations
Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd.
SAOS have teamed up with the Scottish Potato Co-operative (SPC) to investigate water resource management.…
Slurry Separators
Craig Bothwell, SAC Consulting
Slurry separators can have many benefits such as improving the utilisation of slurry, increasing your…
A Recap on Ammonia in Agriculture
Freya Lance, SAC Consulting
Unlike carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, ammonia is not actually a greenhouse gas. So…
Water Scarcity: Impact and mitigation measures in Scotland
With dryer periods affecting water supply when needed, what can land managers do to protect water supply?
Water scarcity, what are the impacts and what can land manager do to reduce the…
Water Scarcity: Impacts across Scotland
What does water scarcity mean for Scotland?
Water scarcity occurs when there is not enough water to meet the demands of humans…
Catchment Management Plans – why are they important?
Here Ann-Marie MacMaster, Land Use and Nature-Based Solutions Project Officer with The River South Esk Partnership explains more.
Catchment management plans bring together all aspects of the water environment. They take into account…
Sustaining Scottish soils
Sarah Buckingham, SAC Consulting
The importance of soils Soils underpin all nature-based systems, therefore, are vital in supporting Scotland’s…
Sustainable solutions to bank erosion: how trees can help protect Scotland’s riverbanks
Helen Reid, SEPA
Scotland’s rivers are facing increasing challenges due to more frequent and intense flood events. As…
Pit silage Vs. Bales
Fiona Salter, SAC Consulting and Robert Hunter, West Tarbrax Farm
Making and storing silage is an expensive operation. How you choose to store silage needs…
Sustainable Bank Protection: willow spiling
Willow spiling and bank regrading on the River Don
Willow spiling and bank regrading on the River Don Beidleston Farm, on the River Don,…
Sustainable Bank Protection: regrading with large trees and willow
Regrading banks and willow planting in the Scottish Borders
How can you cope with a high energy river that is eroding a bank and…