News Scotland’s landmark Land Reform Bill is pushing forward at pace, but NFU Scotland is calling for further clarity to be delivered to allow proper debate to take place.
16/12/2015
News Cuts to tariffs which support farm-based renewables could undermine the huge energy generating potential of Scottish farms and hold Scotland back from reaching its world-leading energy and climate change targets.
16/12/2015
News Scottish Government’s approach to GM risks consigning the nation’s farmers and scientific community to a technological backwater.
16/12/2015
News Scottish farmers continue to be let down by Scottish Government’s failure to address gold-plated rules around Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) scheme greening measures while Europe’s delivery of CAP simplification, scheduled to come into force in 2017, is disappointingly ponderous.
16/12/2015
News NFU Scotland’s Sutherland branch presented its chairman, Malcolm McCall of Brora, with a 12-year-old bottle of whisky to mark his 12 years in the post at its recent annual general meeting.
15/12/2015
News NFU Scotland continues to engage with tenant members on the devolution of Crown Estates, allowing them to air their views for future management options.
15/12/2015
News Battery storage is recognised as the ‘next big thing’ in the renewable energy sector.
09/12/2015
News Farmers are being offered the chance to see the first ‘gas to grid’ farm-based renewables project being installed in Fife.
02/12/2015
News NFU Scotland believes that for farm businesses the overall benefits of staying in the European Union (EU) currently outweigh any advantages businesses would gain from leaving the EU.
02/12/2015
News Agriculture is unique. It supplies food, stores carbon and generates renewable energy. Farming is on the frontline of climate change impacts, being particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.
01/12/2015