Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: croitearachd) is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland...
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(pronounced [kʰɾɔʰtʲ], plural croitean [ˈkʰɾɔʰtʲən]). The Scottish croft is a small agricultural landholding of a type that has been subject to special legislation...
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Agribusiness Agrominerals Building-integrated agriculture Contract farming Corporate farming Crofting Ecoagriculture Farmworker Food loss and waste Food...
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houses are an example of the typical medieval pattern of 'toft and croft' agriculture. The main road which runs to the west of the village (from York towards...
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The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF), formerly called the Scottish Crofting Foundation (also formerly called the Scottish Crofters Union), is an organization...
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8923. Gras, Norman. A History of Agriculture in Europe and America, (F.S. Crofts, 1925) Gray, L.C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to...
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regenerative agriculture using rotational grazing and see themselves as “nature friendly farmers”. They have planted up to 30,000 trees on the croft and as...
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Scotland." The Crofting Commission were required by Audit Scotland in the Report to follow an Implementation Plan to rectify matters. Agriculture in England...
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Favoured Area support scheme". One reliable source discussed the Crofting Agricultural Grant Scheme (CAGS) in March 2020: the scheme "pays up to £25,000...
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taught and wrote articles that were later published in book form as Crofting Agriculture. The pagan-cult island of Summerisle featured in the motion picture...
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Smallholding (redirect from Small-scale agriculture)
Building-integrated agriculture Croft Family farm Foodscaping Forest gardening Hobby farm Market garden Peasant Permaculture Subsistence agriculture Underground...
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Sayers Croft is a large outdoor 'learning camp' located in the village of Ewhurst, Surrey. It is one of the few remaining 'Camp schools' built by the...
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Highland Potato Famine (category Crofting)
heavily influenced the Liberal approach to the problems of the crofting region. Agriculture in Scotland Great Famine (Ireland) European Potato Famine of...
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Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft CMG PC JP (22 June 1881 – 7 December 1947) was a decorated British soldier and Conservative Party politician. He was...
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support scheme and the Less Favoured Area support scheme and the Crofting Agricultural Grant Scheme (CAGS), as of March 2020. According to the Scottish...
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Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the...
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taught and wrote articles that were later published in book form as Crofting Agriculture. In 1944 he was appointed as Director of the West Highland Survey...
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Land-grant university (redirect from Land grant colleges of agriculture)
and the urban condition." Education and Urban Society 5.1 (1972): 5-21. Croft, Genevieve K. "The US land-grant university system: An overview." CRS Report...
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responsibilities of the post are: agriculture animal health and welfare wildlife management and crime natural resources and peatland crofting rural portfolio impacts...
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Agriculture in the Middle Ages describes the farming practices, crops, technology, and agricultural society and economy of Europe from the fall of the...
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Highland Clearances (category History of agriculture in the United Kingdom)
the causes of resentment.: 212 The second phase involved overcrowded crofting communities from the first phase that had lost the means to support themselves...
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military service became important sources of additional revenue. Crofting British Agricultural Revolution History of Scotland Dodgshon, Robert A. (1998). From...
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The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agriculture in Scotland. Macaulay Institute Agriculture in the United Kingdom Crofting National Farmers' Union of Scotland...
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Adolphus Croft (1831 - 22 March 1893) was the in-house architect for the furniture manufacturers Gillow & Company, later Waring & Gillow. Adolphus Croft was...
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The Goodman's Croft was a superstition common in 16th and 17th century Great Britain, particularly in Scotland. It was also known as the Guideman's Grunde...
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Tenant farmer (redirect from Agricultural tenancy)
previous legislation in the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 and the Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948. For Scotland see Crofting, a traditional and long-established...
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Plough (redirect from Plow agriculture)
of ground and for potato planting. It is found in Shetland, some western crofts, and more rarely Central Scotland, typically on holdings too small or poor...
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Scotland (1936) in The Face of Britain series, and F. Fraser Darling's Crofting Agriculture – Its Practice in the West Highlands and Islands (1945). Throughout...
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The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established...
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