News A new group for Argyll and Bute that aims to inform and engage with schoolchildren about food and farming is being proposed.
21/05/2019
News In a face-to-face meeting with Lord Bew, chair of the current Review of Intra-UK Allocation of Domestic Farm Funding, NFU Scotland has repeated its position that Scotland’s farm funding shortfall of almost £190 million must be addressed.
20/05/2019
Blog The UK Government will consult on dairy contract regulation this summer – so what is this all about? Policy Manager George Jamieson explains.
17/05/2019
News NFU Scotland responded this week to a consultation into a proposed Members Bill on livestock worrying, urging the Scottish Government to ensure provision for full compensation based on actual losses suffered is provided for.
17/05/2019
Blog To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, former NFU Scotland Pigs Committee Chair Kevin Gilbert discusses some of the issues which he has faced with mental health in farming.
15/05/2019
News NFU Scotland is urging its membership to complete a survey to assess the confidence of Scotland’s farmers and crofters in the context of the Brexit process.
15/05/2019
News NFU Scotland has joined other organisations from across the livestock sector to urge farmers to think carefully about importing animals from areas that are known to be infected with bluetongue (BTV) virus.
14/05/2019
News NFU Scotland is reminding farmers and crofters to apply to Police Scotland for an agricultural dispensation for wide vehicle movements ahead of the busy harvest period.
14/05/2019
News The UK farming unions have published a document ahead of the European elections on 23 May calling for a policy environment that allows our farmers, crofters and growers to grow and thrive.
14/05/2019
News NFU Scotland met with representatives from the Campbell family of Glenrath Farms and Tesco on Thursday 9 May at the farm’s Millennium site, near Peebles, where they are converting their existing colony production units into an impressive barn system.
13/05/2019