| Agricultural Forum Meeting - CHANGE OF DATE | ||
Please note that the date of the Agricultural Forum Meeting has been changed to Friday 27th February 2009. The meeting will be held at the SEERAD Offices in Oban. Attendance is free but to book a place please contact Fergus Younger at the Agricultural Forum on 01586 552502. | ||
27 February 2009 |
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| 2008 Less Favoured Area Support Scheme Consultation Response | ||
THE LESS FAVOURED AREA SUPPORT SCHEME IN SCOTLAND 2010-2013 CONSULTATION The Hill and Island areas of Argyll have experienced a massive decline in livestock numbers in the past seven years. There has been a 30% drop in breeding ewe numbers since 2001. Declines are similar across the Highland and Islands area of Scotland and are now close to a stage where the | ||
9 January 2009 |
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| A Transport "Coo" | ||
Co-ordinating farmers to share transport has been highlighted as one of the key difficulties as part of a recent local food study. Five different mainland and island abattoirs for processing Kintyre red meat, many butchery options and different transport routes have been identified. The Argyll and Bute Agricultural Forum, Fyne H | ||
9 January 2009 |
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| Partnership Excellence Awards | ||
The rock and roll lifestyle of the Argyll Food Producers has led to a Scotland of Food and Drink Excellence Award. The Food from Argyll initiative won the Success through Working in Partnerships Award which was presented at the awards ceremony and dinner in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum. As a group of 10 primary and secondary | ||
18 May 2009 |
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| Food from Argyll Tackles Murrayfield | ||||
Scotland 7s captain Scott Forrest will not only team up with the finest sevens players in Scotland at the Emirates Airline Edinburgh Sevens at Murrayfield on 30 and 31 May, but he has also been impressed by the ‘Fyne’ food on offer for supporters at the event. 26 March 2009 |
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| Working Farm Woodlands: - Contract for Experienced Woodland Facilitator | ||||
The forum seeks an experienced woodland facilitator, with an understanding of west coast agriculture to work on the development of two farm woodland projects. This would be a short-term contract to be delivered by Dec 2009. For further information please contact Fergus Younger 01586 552502 fergus.younger@sac.co.uk 15 September 2009 |
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| Agricultural Forum meets Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiry | ||
| The first meeting of the Argyll and Bute Agricultural Forum was held in a snowy Dunoon on the 3 March. Despite difficult travelling conditions attendees travelled from across Argyll to be able to meet the main players in the Royal society of Edinburgh’s inquiry into Hill and Island communities. Professor Gavin McCrone and Professor Roger Crofts outlined the progress of the inquiry, which | ||
3 February 2008 |
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| Meat Marketing Seminar comes to Islay | ||
| Meat Marketing Seminar comes to Islay With the imminent opening of the new Avonvoggie Abattoir, Islay NFUS and the Argyll and Bute Agricultural Forum have organised an exciting one day ' Meat Marketing & Processing Seminar' on Thursday 20th March 2008 at the Machrie Hotel. The busy programme starts at 10.30am with a welcome by the day's Chairman, Stuart Wood, an Orkney Farmer, NFUS Vice Chair | ||
10 February 2008 |
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| MIST FAILS TO BLUR VISION FOR MARKETING RED MEAT FROM ISLAY | ||
| A plane circled overhead whilst 40 delegates gathered at the Machrie Hotel on Islay to attend a seminar exploring the opportunities for adding value to their livestock. This was not security for this seminar but some of the key speakers, Stewart Wood and Lisa Webb from the NFUS, Paul Mclaughlin from Scotland Food and Drink and Jim Fairlie from Bridge of Earn. With no break in the mist they we | ||
20 February 2008 |
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| Argyll Food and Drink Stake Holder Meeting | ||
A meeting for all those involved in the food and drink sector in Argyll will be held in the Corran Halls, Oban between 10:30 am and 2:00pm on Friday the 30th May. Tea and coffee will be available from 10:30 and a soup and sandwich lunch will be provided. The meeting will bring together those directly involved in the food and drink production sectors in Argyll and also those indirectly invol | ||
1 April 2008 |
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| Agricultural Forum Visits New Islay Abattoir | ||
| Members of the Argyll and Bute Agricultural forum were recently given a tour of the new Avenvogie Abattoir on Islay by Chloe Randall, Factor at Dunlossit Estate. Chloe explained that the abattoir has been built by Dunlossit Estate to kill their stock and other stock on the island. It is anticipated that the abattoir will have an annual throughput, of 300 cattle, 1000 sheep and 450 pigs per yea | ||
0 November 2008 |
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| Food from Argyll | ||
| During summer 2008 ten different producers wowed festival goers with high quality ready to eat food from across Argyll and the Islands. This included roast beef, lamb and carpaccio of beef from Barbreck farms of Ardfern, oysters, kippers and cullen skink from Loch Fyne Oysters, cheese burgers and macaroni cheese from Inverloch Cheese of Campbeltown; Bumble‟s sticky toffee puddings from L | ||
1 July 2008 |
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| Can Blackies stay in the Black? | ||
Eight hill lamb producers from across Islay, Mull and North Argyll recently sent 250 Blackface store lambs to be finished on a farm in Stow in the Borders, under the supervision of Nigel Millar NFUS National vice chairman. The producers have set out to research all the costs associated with the lambs till they reach market, with a view to establishing the baseline costs of production for Argyll | ||
9 November 2008 |
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| Food from Argyll wins Gold in Council Excellence Awards | ||
| The Food from Argyll project recently enjoyed a successful evening at the Argyll & Bute Council Excellence Awards 2008, achieving Gold in their category - Outstanding Environment, sponsored by Shanks Argyll and Bute. Dunoonֺs Queenֺs Hall played host to the third Argyll & Bute Council Excellence Awards on Thursday 27th November 2008. The awards evening was all about celebrating t | ||
27 November 2008 |
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| Local Food Loads - One New Solution to Distribution Challenges | ||
Local Food Loads is a free, no-nonsense web-site for local food producers and distributors to co-operate with each other to reduce delivery costs www.localfoodloads.co.uk It is particularly useful for local producers who make their own deliveries. If you have ba | ||
22 November 2008 |
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| AGRICULTURAL FORUM SETS DATES FOR 2008 | ||
| The Argyll and Bute Agricultural forum is gearing up for 2008. The Forum has secured funding to help take forward it’s work to help sustain Agriculture and Crofting in Argyll and the Islands. Argyll and Bute council, HIE Argyll and the Isles, National Farmers Union, Scottish Executive and the Bank of Scotland have committed funds to progress the work into 2008. Pictured James Morrison, Ba | ||
10 November 2007 |
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