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.
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17 December 2020
We’re delighted to feature in another great on_farm podcast from Scene & Herd PR, this time focusing on the climate change challenge facing agriculture as a whole.
All too often, farmers and food producers are portrayed as villains on climate change. While there is work to do, the industry's positive stories too often go untold. We at SAOS say it is time to get off the back foot and change that, and we plan to spearhead an industry-wide collaborative push to cut emissions and ramp up sequestration. For the first of a number of climate change episodes with SAOS, Anna Davies is joined by:
Tim Bailey - SAOS Chief Executive
Emma Patterson Taylor - SAOS’s lead on climate change and sustainability.
Angela Porchez of the fruit growers co-op, Angus Growers
Jonny Williams from meat marketing co-op Farm Stock
Listen to the first episode in our series focusing on Climate Change - and what we can do about it - Climate Change Episode 1
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