News With the UK officially out of the EU from 31 December 2020, NFU Scotland is striving to prepare its farming and crofting members for the changes their businesses could face.
17/09/2020
News Defra’s 12-week long consultation on “Contractual relationships in the UK dairy industry” closed last night. This consultation was in response to concerns raised that primary producers, including dairy farmers, tend to occupy positions of relative market weakness in the food supply chain.
16/09/2020
Blog With just over three months to go, Britain has struck its first post-Brexit trade deal and momentum is building quickly writes President Andrew McCornick.
16/09/2020
News Scotland’s leading rural and environmental organisations have written an open letter to Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, calling on the Scottish Government to urgently provide clarity on how it intends to move forward its work on tackling flytipping.
16/09/2020
News NFU Scotland has written to Scottish Government to request clarity on future agri-environment management to secure the confidence of Scottish farmers and crofters to continue to deliver on biodiversity and climate change outcomes whilst producing high quality, sustainable food.
15/09/2020
News NFU Scotland’s newly established Climate Change Advisory Panel has met via Zoom for the first time today (11 September 2020).
11/09/2020
Blog At midnight on the 15 September, the DEFRA consultation on milk contracts will close.
11/09/2020
Blog As we celebrate food production through Scottish Food Fortnight and ahead of Back British Farming Day tomorrow (Wednesday 9 September), NFU Scotland President Andrew McCornick contends that there is ‘no such thing as cheap food.’
08/09/2020
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement from Scottish Government that its pilot grant scheme, the Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grant Scheme (SACGS), will be open to applications on Monday 7 September.
03/09/2020
Blog Due to the fast-approaching Scottish parliamentary elections in May 2021, the legislative proposals in the Programme for Government from the First Minister yesterday (1 September) were slim writes Political Affairs Manager Clare Slipper.
02/09/2020