Scotland’s experts on farmer co-ops and food industry collaboration, we work with food and farming businesses to make them more profitable, competitive, and sustainable - #workingtogether to shape the future, today.
All our work helps facilitate farmers and food and drink businesses to work together effectively. Over the years we've expanded and developed subsidiary businesses - getting the right people together and making innovative advancements - to help benefit food, farming and rural Scotland.
Developing staff capability is one of the most effective ways to improve a co-op’s performance. Check out our events and training programme - most of which are open to non co-op members too.
As a development organisation, owned by our members, we provide a range of specialist services not available elsewhere, to assist them in developing their people and their businesses. Get in touch to find out how we can help you.
See below for all the latest news, views and updates from us here at SAOS. Find all our latest videos on YouTube at: SAOS - working together in food and farming
Key to our work is a firm belief that farmers should always own their data and be able to negotiate a fair value exchange when sharing that data with others.
Having developed and delivered ScotEID, a world-leading livestock traceability database using industry-owned data, SAOS understands the opportunities offered by this approach.
With the success of ScotEID, Scotland is at the forefront of animal disease management, having replaced expensive, slow and inaccurate trace systems, with one that is secure, reliable and low-cost and in which farmers never give up ownership or control of their own data.