Tour Scotland Travel Video Hill Farmer Herding Sheep With Quad Bike Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland Winter travel Blog video of a Scottish Hill farmer herding sheep with a Border Collie sheepdog on his quad bike in the Highlands of Scotland. The Scottish highlands are home for many hill farms. Sheep farms and mixed sheep and cattle farms constitute approximately 55% of the agricultural land in Scotland. These areas have a harsh climate, short growing seasons, relatively poor quality of soil and long winters. Therefore, these areas are considered to be disadvantaged and the animals raised there are generally less productive and farmers will often send them down to the lowlands to be fattened up.

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