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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22 March 2021
Part three of our on_farm podcast series with Scene & Herd PR, focusing on the climate change challenge facing agriculture, is out now!
Climate-friendly farming can be a more efficient and profitable way to run your business - that's the key message of episode 3 of our series. Anna Davies hears about tools, methods, and processes you can implement on your farm to help Scotland meet its 2045 carbon 'net zero' target. This is the third in a series of podcasts on climate change with SAOS and our members. This time Anna is joined by:
Mark Clark - SAOS Chairman and MD of Grampian Growers
Andrew Moir - Contract farmer and Chairman Scottish Quality Crops, Andrew also heads up the Climate Change Group for Arable and Horticulture
Rory Christie - SAOS Board Member and Chairman of the Milk Supply Association
Listen to Part 3 at:
And of you've not already heard them, listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here
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