Professor John Robertson OBA
This morning, the Scottish Government announced:
The Chief Statistician has released predictions for the 2025 Scottish harvest. These industry predictions anticipate overall cereal production could reach a high of over 3.2 million tonnes.
This could bring total production in at well above the average over the past five years, despite dry spring and summer conditions. Winter crops, including winter barley, oilseed rape and wheat, are predicted to perform well, with some very good yields being reported.
https://www.gov.scot/news/a-good-cereal-harvest-predicted-for-2025/
There are no MSM reports on this.
Three days ago, the Scottish Farmer had:
England has suffered its second worst harvest on record, with new Defra figures showing yields well below expectations after one of the warmest springs and driest early summers in more than a century.
https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/25534571.englands-2025-harvest-hit-extreme-weather/
Imagine this had been the other way round, might Scotland’s MSM have been interested? Might they have found a way to doorstep the minister and blame the SNP for failure in some way? You know they would because in August 2025, they they had the opportunity to do what they love best and did:
Growing cereal crops in Scotland has become increasingly “unpredictable and difficult”, farming body NFU Scotland (NFUS) has said.
It said “unusual weather” had resulted in this year’s spring barley being ready to harvest earlier than usual – but it had also adversely affected the quality of the grain.
A dry spring affected the germination of barley in some places before later dry weather had a further impact, with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) raising concerns around water scarcity for some parts of Scotland.
Will BBC Scotland now revisit the above negative news in the light of the latest optimistic updates? You know the answer.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I remember many years ago, BBC Scotland had a reporter called Jamieson Clarke, who was a one-off character, who clearly loved Scotland and spoke in his natural accent.
Among the many topics he dealt with was Scottish farming and he had one old farmer whom he interviewed regularly. No matter what the topic was the old farmer always saw it as a sign that we were ‘doomed’.
If we had a pleasantly warm spell, the farmer would say that we needed rain, when the rain came, he would worn of plants rotting, if the wind dried up the damp, he worried that it would uproot the crops, if we had a mild winter it would not kill off the pests, if it was a cold winter it would damage the roots.
Jamieson Clark treated all this pessimism with joviality.
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Good News is NOT news for our colonial media.
Only negativity and fear-mongering, with the Branch Office personnel given question-free platforming for extra personal smear-fests.
gavinochiltree
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Scotland makes £Billion from food and drink. Farmers vote for the Union and Brexit.
Whisky companies tax evade and pay no tax.
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