DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (September, 11th) sold 9,163 store lambs including 1,174 from Lewis Livestock Producers. Cheviot wedder lambs (2,405) averaged £36.63 and sold to £57 gross from An Teallach, Mulbuie.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (September, 10th) sold 14,179 store lambs. Cheviot lambs (13,402) averaged £41.35 and sold to £56 gross for a Cheviot ewe lamb from Rootfield West, Muir of Ord.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (September, 9th) sold 136 store cattle, 89 breeding cattle and 44 OTM cattle. Bullocks (38) averaged 180.6p and sold to 204.2p per kg and £960 gross.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (September, 8th) sold 75 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (29) averaged 171p (-0.7p) and sold to 195p per kg and £1,170.30 gross.
The Highland Council is to carry out emergency works to stabilise the riverside wall on River Street, Wick, following flood damage, which has forced the temporary closure of River Street between Mackay's Hotel and Burn Street. Contractor, A & W Sinclair Ltd, has been appointed to undertake emergency repairs to the wall.
For the 4th year running, UHI Colleges together with Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust, Alchemy Plus, Macrae & Dick and Harper MacLeod Solicitors are working together to offer wannabe entrepreneurs in the region the chance to submit their business ideas to win a share of the £2,900 cash prize pool. The competition is open to anyone over 16 and resident in the Highlands and Islands, Perthshire and Moray.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is offering five ambitious local businesses the chance to win a place at a sponsors week with a top Boston research and technology facility. In a tie up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), HIE is asking interested businesses to outline how access to the top notch research and development 'Media Lab' could boost their opportunities.
Measures to ensure that local businesses and communities derive the maximum benefits from the development of the renewable energy sector were discussed at a meeting in Inverness recently. Senior representatives of Orkney Islands Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), the Crown Estate and The Highland Council met at the The Highland Council's headquarters in Glenurquhart Road, Inverness.
A one day course given by food marketing specialist David Lamb, Scottish Agricultural College Saturday 12th September Starting at 10.00am to 4.30pm Dunbeath Community Centre This course is free, including a light lunch. It will be of interest to anyone engaged in food production and marketing, including those thinking about finishing beef and lamb for local sale.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts, (September, 3rd) sold 3,960 store and breeding sheep incorporating annual sale of HISHA accredited sheep and first sale on behalf of Lewis Livestock Producers. Store lambs (3,371) averaged £44.18 and sold to £59.50 gross for a Cheviot from Culbin Farm, Dingwall.
Following the success of last years photo competition "Keep us in the Picture", The Highland Council is once again inviting young people to get out their cameras and use photography as a means of highlighting what they think about the Highlands. As part of the Council's consultation on the Highland wide Local Development Plan, people aged 25 and under are been asked to send in photographs of what they like and don't like about Highland and also what they would like to see in Highland that we don't already have.
As Scotland celebrates the year of the Homecoming, Caithness and North Sutherland will have the chance to show even more visitors what is has to offer - thanks to a £275,000 funding boost from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Highlands and Islands Enterprises (HIE), Visit Scotland and Highland Council. The NDA, a member of the Caithness and Sutherland Regeneration Partnership, has contributed £75,000 of this.
The Highland Council is encouraging local suppliers to come along to the first three of a series of ten procurement road shows. Entitled 'Submission Impossible?', the events are aimed at helping local suppliers to develop their skills in tendering for public sector contracts, and form part of the Council's response to the economic downturn.
Highland Libraries have had a successful year with statistics showing that the number of people using libraries is on the increase and the number of items issued in 2008-09 has shot up by 3.5% from the previous year. The Scottish Library and Information Council visited the Highlands in May and carried out detailed discussions with staff, the public and other stakeholders.
A series of Information Days will take place across the Highlands to give people the opportunity to find out how they can get involved in shaping the future of the Highlands. These events have been arranged to complement the official ten week public consultation on the Highland-wide Local Development Plan which starts on Monday 31 August.
Forthcoming Seminar at the ERI, Thursday 3rd September 2009, 17:00 A requiem or renaissance for mixed-pine forest ecosystems in the northern Lake States of the USA? Speaker: Dr Charles Goebel - Ohio State University Dr Charles Goebel is an Associate Professor of Forest Ecosystem Restoration and Ecology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University in Wooster, Ohio, USA. His research program focuses on understanding how natural and human disturbances influence the composition, structure, and function of forest ecosystems.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August 27th) sold 7,475 store lambs and breeding sheep at their annual sale. Suffolk cross lambs (2,706) averaged £50.06 and sold to £63 gross from Bogallan, North Kessock.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 25th) sold 65 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (30) averaged 170.8p (-2.9p) and sold to 189p per kg and £1,292.85 gross.
Two small areas of radioactive contamination have been detected during a survey of grazing land adjacent to the former nuclear research site at Dounreay. They were excavated and removed to the site for analysis.
More than a hundred fragments of spent nuclear fuel were removed from the seabed in the latest phase of work to clean up and shut down the former nuclear research site at Dounreay. The particles were detected and retrieved by a remotely-operated vehicle that systematically scanned an area of seabed equivalent in size to more than 10 football pitches.