Help needed with first step into forestry

Help needed with first step into forestry

With a vast area of Scottish forests to manage and monitor, there is an urgent need to grow the next generation of skilled foresters. And we need businesses to help young people experience the real world of forestry work and decide to forge a career there. And whether...
Pre-apprentices get into gear with tractor training

Pre-apprentices get into gear with tractor training

This year’s crop of Land-based Pre-apprentices are revving up ahead of starting their training. Despite not formally starting until the end of the month, the budding teenage farmers have already started their tractor driver training in small groups as the programme...
Mentor appeal to offer first step into farming

Mentor appeal to offer first step into farming

“You were young yourself once!” It’s not the only reason Pre-apprenticeship mentor farmer David Smith from Auchnagatt offers placements to promising young people but it’s a good one. Applications are now closed for this year’s Land-based Pre-apprenticeship so...
John Gray appointed vice chairman

John Gray appointed vice chairman

Ringlink has appointed a new vice chairman in John Gray, managing director of Angus Soft Fruits. John has been on the board since the summer of 2022, and takes over in the new role from the start of 2024 where he will be supporting chairman James Porter. He has worked...
Ringlink welcomes new director

Ringlink welcomes new director

Ringlink welcomes a new director with Peter Oosterhof joining us in December 2023. Forty-year-old Peter farms at Savoch Farm, at Lonmay near Fraserburgh. “I am really looking forward to taking my place on the board,” he said. “Farmer-owned cooperatives are important...