Almost half a million pounds has been awarded to scientists to allow them to see if climate change could impact on the levels of carbon dioxide released from Europe’s soils.

At Glensaugh continuing fine weather has allowed us to make good progress with selling finished lambs. Cows and calves have had their final move of the season prior to weaning and sale in early October.

In a society where crime fiction is one of the best audience pullers for film, TV and paperback, it’s no surprise that an opportunity to find out about the perfect murder is proving so popular in the North-east of Scotland. [continue reading ... ]

A project is about to get underway to count Scotland’s worms. [continue reading ... ]

At Glensaugh we are continuing to sell finished lambs, but not in the numbers we would have liked. Grass growth has been impaired by poor weather and this has had a knock-on effect on livestock growth rates.

The end of the festival. Birmingham will follow Guildford, and its pavements made of Aberdeen granite, on hosting the festival next year.

Pupils at Easterfield Primary School near Turriff were on hand to watch Primary Two pupil Beth Cooper (aged 6) accept a digital camera for the prize winning entry in Aberdeen’s Macaulay Land Use Research Institute’s Moments in Time competition. Beth was presented with the camera by Chief Executive of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Professor Richard Aspinall, during a visit to the school on 2nd September. The school also received a trip to Aberdeen’s Satrosphere Science Centre as part of the prize. [continue reading ... ]

One day left. It seems that I only arrived yesterday but yet it is tomorrow that I will leave Guildford.

So this is my last day at the festival! The first talk I attended was one that I had been looking forward to called `Vitamin D: The sunshine superstar’. All I knew on the subject was that sunlight was needed for vitamin D synthesis, and I wondered being from Scotland, if I might be deficient!

Another busy day!