Monitor Farm Scotland

The Monitor Farm Scotland initiative is managed by Quality Meat Scotland and AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds with funding from the Scottish Government, aiming to help improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of Scottish farm businesses.

The aim of the programme is to establish a group of farms to serve as monitor farms to help improve the profitability, productivity and sustainability of producers through practical demonstrations, the sharing of best practice and the discussion of up-to-date issues.

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  • The focus

    The Monitor Farm Scotland initiative is managed by Quality Meat Scotland and AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds with funding from the Scottish Government, aiming to help improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of Scottish farm businesses.

  • Farms

    Each of the monitor farms has its own dedicated Management Team and an associated Business Group that will evaluate solutions and best practice before sharing its findings, both with the wider Community Groups and more generally, through various media channels including a dedicated website.

    Each monitor farmer has a facilitation team, which works with the farmer to show how the use of accurate baseline and benchmarking information can help to improve the profitability of the monitor farm and other farm businesses in the area.

  • Related Initiatives

    As well as the nine Monitor Farms run by QMS and AHDB, six diverse farms in the North and North East of Scotland are involved in the ANM/Farmers Journal Farm Profit Programme(link is external): Making Livestock Pay, which is also supported by the Scottish Government.

    AHDB’s Strategic Potatoe (SPot)(link is external) Farm Programme has one focus farm in Scotland, kindly supported by the Scottish Government, with the programme providing growers with an insight into how the latest new systems and practice stemming from AHDB and Scottish Government funded research can be adopted on their farms.