News NFU Scotland’s crofting representatives have welcomed a positive meeting with Crofting Minister Aileen McLeod in the Scottish Parliament yesterday (12 January).
13/01/2016
News NFU Scotland is reminding its members that the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme year has started. That means, with regards to the Greening element of support payments, land selected to be used as Ecological Focus Area (EFA) field margins or buffer strips should now be out of production (as of 1 January) - so livestock must be kept off, and no agricultural activity undertaken on it until 31 December 2016.
13/01/2016
News The failure by Scottish Government to meet its own CAP payments timetable has led to a call from NFU Scotland for a new statement to be issued.
12/01/2016
News NFU Scotland is to use its series of regional AGMs and its forthcoming national AGM to discuss the landmark Land Reform Bill further with its membership.
11/01/2016
News Scottish poultry keepers are on alert following a suspected low pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak on a Fife poultry unit.
11/01/2016
News NFU Scotland will launch a new award to recognise two farming stalwarts when its members from across Argyll and the Islands meet in Tarbert on Friday 15 January for their Regional Board AGM and members’ day.
08/01/2016
News NFU Scotland has met with Defra Farming Minister George Eustice today (Thursday 7 January) to press again for movement and a timetable on the allocation of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) convergence money.
07/01/2016
News With details on Scotland’s new Beef Efficiency Scheme now in farmers’ hands, NFU Scotland is seeking members’ views on it ahead of next week’s Livestock Committee meeting.
06/01/2016
News As storm after storm pounds Scotland’s farmland, NFU Scotland has called on Scottish Government and SEPA to examine new measures to build resilience into the sector against extreme weather events.
05/01/2016