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Offline Storage
Offline storage offers a solution to slowing the flow during extreme weather events.
Offline storage is a section of land designed to store overflow water from heavy rain/flood…
Blocking Drains
Blocking drains can have multiple benefits for landowners
Blocking drains can be a key management tool for slowing water flow, increasing retention time…
Riparian Woodlands
Riparian woodlands can have great benefits to water management on farm.
Riparian woodland is woodland alongside riverbanks and areas of wet woodland. These features can have…
Woodlands for Water
Hear from two Ayrshire farmers how the Forestry Grant Scheme helped them get more from…
Fighting Bank Erosion with Willow Spiling
Learn more about willow spiling and how it can help prevent riverbank erosion.
Scotland’s Farm Advisory Service Video
Water is the most valuable resource on your farm and the impacts that climate change…
Riparian Planting for land management
Riparian Planting can offer vast benefits to improving water quality and easing land management. In this podcast we examine the benefits of these woodland, looking at funding streams available to discussing the great array of benefits that Riparian woodlands provide with SEPA, Scottish Forestry and SAC Consulting.
Working with SEPA to manage water flow on farm
In this Alasdair Matheson and Graeme Henderson from SEPA, along with Peter Lindsay, from SAC Consulting, discuss how land managers can work with SEPA to manage water flow on farm. The focus is on what farmers can do with regard to ditches, drainage and dredging on farm and they discuss the rules and guidelines which must be followed.
Protecting and enhancing soils on farm
This podcast discusses what ‘good’ soil health is. Looking at how farmers can enhance and protect this resource for viable businesses, while retaining and improving soil on farm.
Managing Water Margins
How we manage land can have a big impact on surrounding water quality. Spreading operations…
Risk Assessment for Manure and Slurry (RAMS) Map
A RAMS map looks at land suitability and takes into account pollution risks when spreading…
