Suckler cows and speedboats – how a watersports diversification has helped an organic beef enterprise to thrive

Few beef farmers can claim that skippering a speedboat is part of the working day, but the Scott-Park family's lochside location has provided opportunities to supplement the income from their organic suckler herd

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The Scott-Park family at Portnellan Farm: David and Freda (right) with their son Chris, his wife Arwyn, and their children Lilly and Hector.
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The Scott-Park family at Portnellan Farm: David and Freda (right) with their son Chris, his wife Arwyn, and their children Lilly and Hector.

It is not unusual for Chris Scott-Park to tie up his speedboat at the jetty on the shores of Loch Lomond and change into his farm clothes to inseminate a cow at Portnellan Farm in Dunbartonshire. The farm's...

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