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Bigton Farm

@BigtonFarm

Beef, sheep & arable farm. Previous Shetland QMS Monitor Farm. On This Farming Life🌾🐮🐑🦆🐶🐴🎬

 Shetland, Scotland
Joined March 2017
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Calling women in ag who have a diversification project in Scotland: please fill out this survey for our sis! newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.u…
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Excellent night @aimeeeb6 & @kcbudge for @NFUStweets members! Thoroughly enjoyed the insight into your home farm practices and the stories of what you both enjoy doing away from farm! “When they see Aimee in the combine, it’s showing what you CAN do, it’s working!” #FemaleFarming
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Do you have a diversification business on your farm? Are you female and live in England? If so please take this 10/15 minute survey to share how you have been affected by COVID-19 and the EU Exit with researchers from @DefraGovUK and @UniofNewcastle 🔗 newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.u…
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Looking for women in Scotland who have a diversification business on their farm to take part in this 10 min survey, to share their experiences & how they've been effected by COVID-19 and the EU Exit. In partnership with @WiAScot , @WEScotland & @scotgov 🔗newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.u…
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BREAKING: In the absence of our conference this February, watch out for some special content here and on our website next week, including brief updates from some popular past speakers. #FarmScot21
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In 2019, Aimee Budge & her sister Kirsty spoke at the Farming Scotland Conference, sharing their story about farming life on @BigtonFarm in Shetland. We asked @aimeeeb6 to send us an update for #FarmScot21 on what’s happened over the past couple of years. youtu.be/1ZI_XVaAtiU
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📢BIG Shout out to all our island farmers who take part in @OpenFarmSunday - from Jersey, Isles of Scilly & Isle of Wight, up to Isles of Arran, Mull, Orkney &... Shetland (photo 11/15): The Budge sisters @BigtonFarm #ThankYou everyone😍 #LOFSlove #IslandFood #Community #LOFS21
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Another footpath sprawling 🤦‍♂️ People please buy boots or wellies & stick to paths If it’s rained a lot don’t use field foot paths @bbcweather tell us pollen count Ice & sun uv levels how about field footpath pass ability 😁 #FootpathMudLevels #chanceOfMud @BBCBreakfast
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Bigton Farm retweeted
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@FarmingUK11 Jan 2021
Those interested in studying a topic within agriculture are being urged to apply for next year's @NuffieldFarming Scholarships 👨‍🏫👨‍🌾 farminguk.com/news/applicati…
Applications open for 2022 Nuffield Farming Scholarship - FarmingUK News

Applications open for 2022 Nuffield Farming Scholarship - FarmingUK News

Those interested in studying a topic within agriculture or the wider industry are being urged to apply for next year's Nuffield Farming Scholarships.

farminguk.com
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Women from islands communities we need your help ❗️❗️❗️ The Women in Agriculture development programme are asking you to complete this 10-15 minute survey which looks to understand the barriers women in island communities face in attending training. bit.ly/2JJ1SxC
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After one heifer was scanned not in calf we looked back at records & noticed her dam & great dam both only had one calf.. but the great great dam & her dam are still here having calves! Fertility issues down the line, a bad bull in the equation or look after 2nd calvers better🤔
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We can lend books in multiple copies or different formats for your book group. Bigton Book Group read a Library publication - The Gas War by Graham Johnston - and we were able to link them up with the author, who phoned into their Zoom meeting.
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Image from Shetland Library (@ShetlandLibrary)
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How it started ➡️ How it’s going
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“I think we should put the heifers on the rape” “Wait, that was my idea” “I know, it’s just taken me 4 months to realise what a good idea it was” #FamilyFarms
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Welcome to our new Social Media Convenor. Teaching Mam the ropes of Instagram.. please apologise for our two posts in one morning, she wanted to practice Her photos around the farm are lovely so please give them a like!
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bronwyn@terrierview6 Oct 2020
It will upset some for whom it is a matter of belief, but this is a sensible move...
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Our direct drilled rape. Not ready to trade in the plough yet but we’re impressed so far. Disclaimer: the whole field does not look like this 😅
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So important to have that difficult conversation but it is one that could prevent a lot of stress! #succession #partnership #sharethebusiness
Farmers Of The UK (@FarmersOfTheUK) profile pictureFarmers Of The UK@FarmersOfTheUK1 Oct 2020
1 Now this is not a woe is me thread but as I have been given a platform I might as well get on my soap box! I would like to chat about the thorny issue of succession. It is just 6 years since Mum died with Dad dying just 9 months later. There was no real succession plan in place
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The sweet sound of winter.. canna believe we’re into these jobs already
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After a 6:30am wake up call to help with an escapee bull, I felt this blog I wrote a few months ago about the balancing act of doing a PhD whilst living on my family farm during COVID-19 was particularly relevant! rgrg.co.uk/a-phd-a-pandemic-… – at Bigton, Scotland
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