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SAOS Conference 2021 "SAOS's A-Z for a Bright Future"

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We’re really sad not to be able to meet up in person for the 2021 SAOS Conference, but we’re embracing technology and running the event online, which gives us a great opportunity to reach out to more of you than ever, and share our work and ideas. If you’ve not made it along in person to our conference before, now is the perfect time, there's no travel required and your ticket is free!

Although 2021 will bring more change and challenges, we’re determined that there is a bright future ahead - in at least 26 ways! We'll also hear from James Withers, CEO of Scotland Food & Drink, who agrees with us. Join us on the 28th of January and we’ll show you how. We’ll also be launching our campaign to get rural Scotland better connected.

Once again, we’re delighted to have NFU Mutual supporting the event. Thanks also to Ledingham Chalmers for sponsoring our Tea Break and Borders Biscuits for helping out with the provisions!

As the conference is free this year, we’re asking attendees to contribute whatever you can to help the SAOS Team to support RSABI. Throughout January we are ‘virtually walking to Dunblane' from each of our houses - that's 1495 miles in total!

In line with our conference topic, we wanted a really positive way to start 2021 - not only are we raising funds for RSABI, but it gets us out into the fresh air and, as it's a team challenge, we'll be pushing each other along - #workingtogether as always. Please support us at SAOS Walk to the Conference See you online on the 28th Jan and, fingers firmly crossed, back at Dunblane Hydro in Jan 2022.

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Proudly supported by

Headline Sponsor

NFU Mutual
Ledingham Chalmers

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Booths

Cameron Live Delegate Support Booth

Delegate Support Booth

NFU Mutual

Welcome to the NFU Mutual virtual booth.

Ledingham Chalmers

Straightforward, specialist advice for food and farming businesses.

B is for Benchmarking

Pointing farm businesses in the right direction

E is for Education with RHET

The Royal Highland Education Trust

F is for Food and Drink

Food and drink supply chains - building resilience and sustainability

G is for Genetics

Speeding up dairy breeding

H is for Help & Support with RSABI

Supporting people in Scottish agriculture

I is for Innovation

Find out more about starting your innovation journey

J is for Jobs

#workingtogether in farming, food and drink

K is for Knowledge Transfer

Improving the profitability and sustainability of #farms and #crofts

L is for Local

#supportlocal

M is for Markets

New market opportunities for 2021 and beyond

N is for Next Generation

How do we engage with the Next Generation?

Q is for Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance in Scotland’s Food and Drink Supply Chain

R is for Research with SEFARI

Research into co-operation and co-ops in Scotland

S is for Sensors

SmartRural

T is for Teamwork

#WorkingTogether

U is for USP with Scotland Food & Drink

Giving Scotland a competitive edge

Y is for You

What can we do #WorkingTogether?

X is for "X" factor

What gives co-ops the ‘X’ factor?