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Stock Person Required
Jun 16, 2021

Stock Person Required

Full time stock person opportunity at Balbirnie Home Farms

Plant health on trial at Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland
May 6, 2021

Plant health on trial at Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland

Baselining and plant health are the focus for the first year of AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland programme. A series of assessments are being carried out to provide baseline crop health, soil, pests and beneficials data at the outset of the programme. The first year’s trial is looking at whether amending crop nutrition in response to live crop monitoring will have an economic benefit on crop health, yield and grain quality.

AHDB Strategic Farm Week: 1-5 June
May 28, 2020

AHDB Strategic Farm Week: 1-5 June

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is holding a virtual Strategic Farm Week next month to showcase its Farm Excellence programme.  

The event, which runs from 1-5 June, is aimed at arable farmers and will highlight the latest findings on the research, results and on-farm trials taking place on AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farms across the UK.

David Aglen, Farms Manager at AHDB’s new Strategic Cereals Farm in Scotland, Balbirnie Home Farms, in central Fife, will join other strategic farm hosts, researchers and key experts from across the agricultural industry for the week-long programme.

Strategic Farm Week will offer practical discussions, share technical information and resources and be delivered via video updates, webinars and podcasts.


AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm
Mar 23, 2020

AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm

AHDB announces its first strategic cereal farm for Scotland

Scottish Arable Farm of the Year finalist, Balbirnie Home Farms at Freuchie in Fife, has been selected to be the first AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm for arable growers in Scotland


We Will Remember Them
Nov 12, 2018

We Will Remember Them

It is 100 years since the armistice on 11 November 1918.  We have all been remembering those who have fallen in the Great War.  Personally, I have been remembering my 2 great, great, uncles: Robert Frederick (Jack) Balfour (16-03-1895- 28-10-1914) and John Balfour (5-3-1895-21-3-1918).

The language of farming
Oct 11, 2018

The language of farming

Is the language we use to describe farming stifling innovation and leading us to farm in an environmentally insensitive way?  I have an interesting theory upon which I'd like to hear feedback.

Why the palm tree?
Nov 20, 2017

Why the palm tree?

One of the most common questions asked about our branding is, 'is that a palm tree on your shirt?'  Once we reply that it is, we are then asked, 'why?'  We're going to explain the origins of the Balbirnie Home Farms palm tree.

Farming improvements
Jul 29, 2015

Farming improvements

Improvements to our farming practices can have a positive influence on our financial and ecological health.

Harvest Update
Aug 22, 2013

Harvest Update

Following a normal autumn sowing season, we would expect to be approximately 30% of the way through harvest with the winter barley and winter oats out of the way.  As is happens the harvest is more like 15% finished with a much higher percentage of spring crops.

Spring is in the air
Apr 8, 2013

Spring is in the air

Following a long cold winter, spring has finally arrived in Fife.  At Balbirnie Home Farms, there is new life in the cattle sheds and the crops are going into the ground.  While the season is a little later than usual, the weather is dry and spring oats and spring barley are being planted all around the farm.

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