Blogs

After a short hiatus due to covid, the Shooting Times’ Woodcock Club is back on 14 September. 

The West Tayside committee are once again holding their “Fairways & Flushes” competition at The Gleneagles Hotel, this year on Friday 6th October.
The day will consist of an 18-team competition, with teams of 4 people competing in a clay competition in the morning, lunch at Auchterarder 70 within the Dormy Clubhouse followed by a Texas Scramble golf competition in the afternoon.

The Scottish Government has announced that it intends to bring forward amendments to the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill to ban the use of snares in Scotland.

Starting 18th September, farmers can enroll in the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), as per the recent announcement by Defra.

For too long, the big internet companies have left rural communities, businesses and families behind. Gigaloch is changing that, by connecting the hardest to reach places first to our gigabit-speed, full-fibre network – ensuring remote, rural areas get the broadband they deserve.

The IFM’s Sea Trout Symposium will be held in Cardiff on the 12^th and 13^th of September at the Angel Hotel.

In a world grappling with the urgent need to combat climate change, the agricultural sector is stepping up to the challenge with innovative ideas and collaborative efforts. One example of this is the Climate Neutral Farms project.

The inaugural Agriculture Act to emerge from Wales has officially received Royal Assent. While the national headlines of the Act are about the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), those in the gamekeeping and conservation communities have been dealt a huge blow with the banning of all snares, including the GWCT-devised humane cable restraint.

You might have seen some headlines this week, such as this one, around the dismissal of our science. For those who missed it, here’s a quick summary.

When you think of the GWCT, images of pheasants, partridges, and maybe even lapwings come to mind. But there’s something we deeply care about that might surprise you: soil.