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Ali

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Location
Aberdeenshire
My wife is developing the farm business and has had success in a limited scale so far with what she is doing. She is working on beef and lamb sales from farm direct to the consumer.
Business gateway types things seem useless and offer little help.
Looking for any help and pointers that she could contact to discuss
Any suggestions.
 

Farmer Dod

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
My wife is developing the farm business and has had success in a limited scale so far with what she is doing. She is working on beef and lamb sales from farm direct to the consumer.
Business gateway types things seem useless and offer little help.
Looking for any help and pointers that she could contact to discuss
Any suggestions.
Ali- spent a lot of holidays/ breaks in Cumbria and was amazed at number of farm shops etc down there and farmers who were marketing own meat. Might be worth googling and trying to contact some of them or even nipping down and visiting some yourself. Farmers are usually pretty willing to have a blether and as you're not exactly in their area may be worth a punt!
 

Ali

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Thanks for the comments.
Wrt Local enterprise they have t been overly keen.
@Chae will pass on the rural leadership for her. See what she thinks.
We have looked on the Internet and travelled around looking at bits and pieces.
On one of the previous threads that I can't find now, a farm food business based in sw UK was offering advice to someone up in Scotland/north England
Anyone remember the post or was I just dreaming
 

llamedos

New Member
Thanks for the comments.
Wrt Local enterprise they have t been overly keen.
@Chae will pass on the rural leadership for her. See what she thinks.
We have looked on the Internet and travelled around looking at bits and pieces.
On one of the previous threads that I can't find now, a farm food business based in sw UK was offering advice to someone up in Scotland/north England
Anyone remember the post or was I just dreaming

Was it a thread where @Old Boar was passing on some of her wisdom from years of trading?
 

Tonka

Member
Location
N Yorkshire
http://www.foodanddrink.scot/
How about contacting this body? I've worked alongside these local type of food groups and they work hard to help you to grow your business. As ever, you will only get something +ve out of it, if you put something into it. They are reliant on give and take - and not just take! ;)
 

Ali

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Thanks Tonka,
She is very keen, just our experience of the local enterprise company is that they have different priorities.
But I will pass that on and am sure it will be followed up
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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