by Joanna Fraser | Jun 17, 2024 | News
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...
by Joanna Fraser | Apr 23, 2024 | News
“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...
by Joanna Fraser | Feb 7, 2024 | News
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...
by Joanna Fraser | Jan 19, 2024 | News
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...
by Joanna Fraser | Jan 19, 2024 | News
RSABI provides practical, emotional and financial support to all people involved in the Scottish agricultural industry and they are intent on continuing that work into 2024. Health initiatives have been to the fore recently, and they’ve been awarded a grant of £80,000...
