Come along to Barnbackle at 3pm on Tuesday 18th for the summer open meeting. Lots to discuss! 🐑Poppy Frater SAC 🌱Rhidian Jones RJ Livestock Systems 🐮Bruce Haggerty Stewartry Veterinary Centre 💧Peter Thorpe Ardo water solutions Sign up here: …meetingdumfriesshire.eventbrite.co.uk

Tomorrow!! Come along to Barnbackle tomorrow afternoon at 3pm to hear about sheep, health, grazing and solar powered water pumps! 🐑🐮🌱💧 Sign up here: …meetingdumfriesshire.eventbrite.co.uk

Excellent meeting today at Barnbackle with the McCormick family at todays Monitor Farm meeting QMS AHDB Scotland learning about sheep grazing and diseases from local experts #sheep

Bizy meeting yesterday with some great speakers shame about the weather🌧️ but we managed to get everything undercover thanks Poppy Frater Rhidian Jones Ali Haggerty and aldo water solution for some great discussions Monitor Farm Scotland QMS

Sunshine all round for the summer meeting at Castleton in July! 🌱 Chat about this years crops with David Aglen and Stuart McNicol, funding opportunities with Alexander Pirie and a demo from Drone Ag Finished off with sausage rolls and good chat at DRIFT.

Day two halter breaking calves! You just can't beat the Hereford Cattle UK for docility. Back out to the field for these guys now in the hope of better weather for #Harvest23 🤞 #monitorfarm26 #romanyherefords #farming

The Strathspey management group visited Malcolm's hill ground to discuss land use options. 🌲Forestry? 🌱Environmental grants? 🐮Cattle grazing? ❌Or leave alone? It prompted Malcolm to invite NatureScot and Scottish Forestry to visit to give their perspectives and suggestions.

Finally into some spring barley after some frustrating weather. Not a pretty sample, except the Ladybirds (of which there are plenty!) - maybe they're putting the moisture up too. #harvest23 will be one to forget. #monitorfarm26 #farming #ladybirds

Autumn calvers heading closer to home on a bright #Mondaymorning, will take more than one bright day to be back to harvest though😵 #romanyherefords #farming #monitorfarm26

Spring calvers onto our 20meter AECS grass margins for a bit of a tidy up. 1st year so not risking differed winter grazing on them. PD'd today for 1st April calving. 90% 6-10weeks incalf, 10% to recheck in month or so as bulls were still running until late August.

We've been out filming on all Nine Monitor Farms. The first of the videos is out today... Click the link to hear more from the McCornick Family, the Dumfries Monitor Farm. youtu.be/KCiVneamKmg?si… QMS AHDB Scotland Scot Gov Rural

#MonitorFarm26 have had a fantastic few days aiming to inspire discussion & generate ideas to drive the focus on each Monitor Farm in the coming year. Interested in any of these topics - let us know so we can share these discussions wider! rb.gy/st4ijq

Great start for the H2020-smart & Monitor Farm Scotland day at Stirling Mart! Talking technologies for sheep 🐑 & cattle.

Ready for tech speed dating! 1st & 2nd stops: Shearwell & FarmIT H2020-smart Monitor Farm Scotland @ConsultingSAC SRUC The Moredun Foundation

2nd &3rd stops of the day: herdwatch & agriwebb - great questions! H2020-smart @ConsultingSAC Monitor Farm Scotland SRUC The Moredun Foundation

End of 1st round of H2020-smart & Monitor Farm Scotland speed dating tech morning: iLivestock & AgriIgnite. @ConsultingSAC SRUC The Moredun Foundation

Final round of H2020-smart & Monitor Farm Scotland technology day at Stirling Mart: Datamars, Ritchie & Te Pari. Great to also have Blyth Livestock Advisory Services Matt Blyth & Ross Robertson from Agri-EPI for good advice. @ConsultingSAC SRUC The Moredun Foundation

Spring crops at the East Lothian Monitor Farm enjoying the warm weather at long last !!! The view was good too!! AHDB Cereals Monitor Farm Scotland

Looking forward next Monitor Farm Scotland on Thursday. Like everyone, we're acutely aware of changing weather this yr being +150mm of 🌧 It'll be great to welcome Eric to hear what he has to say about future weather patterns to help planning. Join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-res…

Awesome day yesterday at our Monitor Farm Scotland Summer open day, focusing on ‘Finishing and Forage’. Brilliant line up of speakers & great to see Soil Essentials demo their Skai spot sprayer too. Nice to meet some new people & some from very far afield!