Want to read more?We value our content and our journalists, so to get full access to all your local news updated 7-days-a-week – PLUS an e-edition of the Argyllshire Advertiser – subscribe today for as little as 56 pence per week. Subscribe NowA plan to build Scotland’s first caviar farm at Cairndow has been unanimously approved by Argyll and Bute councillors. The Fynest Caviar Company will now start producing Osteria caviar from Russian and Siberian sturgeon in three buildings on the site of Ardkinglas sawmill at the head of Loch Fyne. The Edinburgh-based company hopes to have Scottish caviar on the market by Christmas 2020, initially producing 1.5 tonnes of caviar a year, which can sell for more than £1,000 per kilo, and growing up to three tonnes annually. The £4m project aims to turnover £3.64m over six years and to hire seven full-time employees, including a general manager and technical staff.Accountant Fraser Niven, one of the … [Read more...] about Cairndow caviar farm gets council go-ahead
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Argyll’s farming women turn out in force
Want to read more?We value our content and our journalists, so to get full access to all your local news updated 7-days-a-week – PLUS an e-edition of the Argyllshire Advertiser – subscribe today for as little as 56 pence per week. Subscribe NowArgyll’s farming women turned out in force last week for the latest in a series of free events offering advice and inspiration for women working in Scottish agriculture. More than 30 travelled to the Inveraray Inn on the afternoon of Friday March 23 to hear Morven MacArthur from SAC Consulting talk about livestock record keeping, while Brona MacDougall, an accountant with R A Clements Associates, discussed farm account keeping. Participants also gave valuable feedback on what other training events they would like to see held for women in agriculture in Argyll.The events have been organised by the Scottish Government’s Farm Advisory Service programme and delivered by SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural … [Read more...] about Argyll’s farming women turn out in force
The farm restaurant where the meat, cheese and beer are produced on site
If you want a true taste of the country, with the meat, veg, beer, cheese and pizzas all produced on the premises, then pull on your wellies and get down to the Bull Shed in Shottle, Derbyshire. But you’ll have to text first to tell them what you fancy off the menu. It’s a concept that’s hitting the bulls-eye for owners Tony and Sue Laven. Good food, home brewed beer and great company – that’s the ethos behind the Bull Shed at Handley Farm, Shottle, and it seems to be working. Serving a menu featuring a simple range including pies, steaks, burgers and pizza, it is booked up for weeks in advance, and it’s text bookings only because it’s set on a working farm and is only open three nights a week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Run by retired firefighter Tony Laven, his wife Sue and a team of friends and family including Tony’s daughter Heather, The Bull Shed retains much of the original features from its past, with exposed stone walls and a … [Read more...] about The farm restaurant where the meat, cheese and beer are produced on site
A Utility Wants to Build America’s Largest Wind Farm—And Get Customers to Pay for It
On the gusty Oklahoma Panhandle, a fight is escalating over a $4.5 billion wind power project that stands to reshape the way Americans pay for clean energy.Across 300,000 acres (121,206 hectares) utility giant American Electric Power Co. is trying to pull off something no other company has attempted at this scale: It wants to build the nation’s largest wind farm -- and it wants up-front guarantees from regulators that customers will pay the bill.The plan calls for tapping a financial model that utilities have long used to build nuclear, coal- and natural gas-fired plants: by tacking costs -- plus a profit -- onto customers’ bills. More recently it’s become a popular way to build wind and solar farms. But American Electric is testing the limits by asking regulators in four states for permission to use the strategy for a sprawling project almost twice the size of Singapore.If American Electric fails in its quest, an entire industry that’s counting on the model for … [Read more...] about A Utility Wants to Build America’s Largest Wind Farm—And Get Customers to Pay for It
Olam Eyes Fish Farming in Africa to Tap Growing Middle Class
Olam International Ltd., one of the world’s largest food traders, is considering expanding into fish farming in Africa to tap demand from a growing and more affluent population.The Singapore-based firm is conducting a feasibility study on farming fish in West Africa, likely in Nigeria, the continent’s most populated country, Chief Operating Officer Shekhar Anantharaman said. Olam could potentially start the venture with partner and shareholder Mitsubishi Corp., which owns fish businesses, he said.“We believe that there’s opportunity for fish farming in Africa,” Anantharaman said in an interview in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital. “Today a lot of the fish is imported. We think there’s a lot of potential to grow it and make it far more easily available and at cheaper cost to the general population.”Producing fish is part of Olam’s plans to target Africa’s growing middle class, and as wealth on the continent … [Read more...] about Olam Eyes Fish Farming in Africa to Tap Growing Middle Class