Wet Weather Resilience Planning – Craigie

The prolonged wet weather that we have experienced since Autumn 2017 has had a massive impact on farm businesses across South West Scotland. 

Forage shortages, slurry spreading issues, field damage and animal health issues such as fluke and pneumonia have all taken their toll on farmers, stock and businesses. Unfortunately this probably wasn’t a one off and The Farm Advisory Service are running a series of meetings across the region to help businesses recover through the spring and use lessons learnt to make plans for the future to make farms more resilient to bad weather.

Topics for discussion

The meetings will cover the following areas:

• Rebuildng the forage buffer – spring fertiliser, maximising silage yields, repairing field damage
• Coping with Forage Shortage – feed budgeting, alternative feeds, managing stock
• Reducing Bedding Requirements
• Animal Health – liver fluke & pneumonia
• Looking After Number 1 – Mental Health Awareness

Booking for this meeting is essential, please use the booking form on the FAS website.

For further information on this event please call Linda O’Neil on 01292 52 52 52 email FRBSAyr@sac.co.uk