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Podcast: Scotland's Farm Advisory Service Podcast
Episode: S1: The Benefits of Agri-Environment Management at Kirkton & Auchtertyre Farms
Description: Farmers should look carefully at their farm to find small areas where they can engage with agri-environment management to provide a greater benefit to the wildlife and fauna in their area is the message from Professor Davy McCracken, Head of Hill & Mountain Research Centre as he chats with Upland Ecologist, Dr John Holland, at SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre research farms.
The farm has engaged with SGRPID agri-environmental schemes, and the resulting increases in biodiversity prompted a slight shift in focus for the farming businesses. Previous scheme managements have brought changes in water margin management, the planting of...