News Scottish sheep farmers, currently hard at work producing their new crop of lambs, are appalled and disappointed at the lack of support Scottish supermarkets are giving to tasty, Scottish lamb this Easter.
12/04/2017
Blog Using my recent media training, which encouraged me to focus on the positive, I wondered how that could be applied to the announcement that a parachute payment will be introduced for our Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme in 2018 writes Vice President Martin Kennedy.
11/04/2017
News In its submission to the Scottish Government’s planning review, NFU Scotland has expressed the need for permitted development rights to be extended to larger farm sheds to reflect the needs of modern agricultural businesses.
07/04/2017
Blog Three sheep worrying events were held in March 2017 where NFU Scotland teamed up with local officers from Police Scotland and local Council employees.
05/04/2017
Blog In March, RHET Borders Countryside Initiative visited every primary school in the Scottish Borders with a tractor.
05/04/2017
News NFU Scotland’s Crown Estate Tenants Working Group has voiced its concerns that the Crown Estate should be retained as one entity as part of the devolution process.
04/04/2017
News The leaders of the UK farming unions, meeting in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, have agreed today (31 March) to press the UK’s Farming Ministers to work for a common financial framework post- Brexit.
03/04/2017