by Joanna Fraser | Jul 11, 2024 | News
The 2024 Land-based Pre-apprenticeship got underway last month (June) with 28 young trainees completing a four-day block induction at the Scottish Rural College (SRUC) at Craibstone. They are now set to start their six-month employment placements with mentor...
by Joanna Fraser | Jul 11, 2024 | News
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...
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 | 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...
