News NFU Scotland has written to major retailers asking for a renewed commitment to stocking home produced pork and bacon at a time when all pig producers face an unparalleled increase in the price of feed for their animals.
25/01/2011
News NFU Scotland, the nation’s leading farming organisation, which represents 9,000 Scottish farmers, crofters, growers and other rural businesses, has welcomed today’s publication of the Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures and highlighted the role Scottish farmers are already playing in feeding people while maintaining Scotland’s famous landscape.
25/01/2011
News NFU Scotland has used a keynote speech at a major conference on renewable energy to call on Government and local authorities to develop a better platform that will allow on-farm energy generation in Scotland to meet its full potential.
20/01/2011
News NFU Scotland has called on the UK Government to act now to reduce the burden that record fuel prices are imposing on the rural economy.
18/01/2011
News NFU Scotland has strengthened its policy team with two new appointments.
10/01/2011
News NFU Scotland have today (Monday 10 January) insisted that kicking off the New Year with a renewed supermarket price war on milk is sending out all the wrong signals both to Scottish farmers and Scottish consumers.
10/01/2011
News NFU Scotland believes Defra’s vision for Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as articulated at a major farming conference in Oxford today, is flawed and would do little to address the current volatility affecting farmers.
05/01/2011