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Scotland Outdoors

Snapshot of Scottish Agriculture

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast Mark and Euan look at a few of the current stories in Scottish farming.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Salons. Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Mark Stephen.

0:39.0

He's you and Macklewre. Yeah, we thought we'd try something different this week.

0:43.0

There's a lot happening in Scottish agriculture at the moment.

0:45.7

And we've been across a lot of the stories.

0:47.6

It's a time of tremendous flux, it has to be said, because obviously there are growing concerns

0:51.8

about climate change, about carbon use, about carbon release,

0:55.0

all that kind of things and all this affects Scottish agriculture.

0:58.0

There's also Brexit, big question mark hanging over that.

1:01.0

So we thought we'd look at various aspects of this.

1:04.0

There is, coming up, a biennial national beef event, which is organised by the Scottish Beef Association,

1:10.0

that's built, held on a farm,

1:12.1

not terribly far away from here in Aberdeenshire. Yeah and against that whole backdrop of Brexit,

1:16.3

you're saying, the criticism of red meat, which begs the question, why would you want to host it

1:21.4

in the first place? Former Robbie Mill told me why. We was approached early last year,

1:27.3

asking we would do the event and we were hesitant

1:30.3

for a start and we discussed it and decided well we'll give it a go and see how it goes

1:35.3

but it's been able to that work.

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