Finding staff in Scotland?

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
Go direct to the 'local' Ag College, if it's seasonal work or you could host someone on an HND gap year?
If you give the tutors a job description they should be able to match you up, dont be afraid to (tactfully) ask them to screen out the wing nuts...
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
If you just want harvest casuals advertise where ever the Irish drivers will see it. Every Grassmen/FarmFlix vid you see filmed in England and Scotland seems to have Irish temps these days.
Might be cheaper than the locals too.
If you've no accommodation advertise in whatever's local.
 

melted welly

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
Would you consider an apprentice?

there’s the modern agricultural apprenticeship scheme, facilitated by sruc. When I got our lad on it there was a £5k training fund which will see him through the PAs, chainsaw, 1st aid, H&S, various forklift tickets, plus ppe. Can be rolled into I think a “technical apprenticeship” which would progress them into more of the management side as well.

Depends on getting the right candidate of course, but so far it has worked very well for us.

There’s also no age limit, my apprentice is 24 and came from a fabrication background, which is a massive boost. He even knows what all the buttons do on the welder.
 

capfits

Member
Would you consider an apprentice?

there’s the modern agricultural apprenticeship scheme, facilitated by sruc. When I got our lad on it there was a £5k training fund which will see him through the PAs, chainsaw, 1st aid, H&S, various forklift tickets, plus ppe. Can be rolled into I think a “technical apprenticeship” which would progress them into more of the management side as well.

Depends on getting the right candidate of course, but so far it has worked very well for us.

There’s also no age limit, my apprentice is 24 and came from a fabrication background, which is a massive boost. He even knows what all the buttons do on the welder.
Jammy barsteward
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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