News A recent review, undertaken by NFU Scotland’s Less Favoured Areas (LFA) Committee, has identified significant progress in achieving stability for farmers and crofters in Scotland’s LFA. The review outlines achievements since the publication of NFU Scotland’s policy document ‘Less Favoured Areas – Delivering for Scotland’, in October last year.
10/03/2021
News Police Scotland, NFU Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council are calling on dog owners to keep their animals under control in the countryside.
10/03/2021
Blog Infrastructure is key to improved connectivity around telecommunications. That is why Tom French, chair of NFU Scotland’s Legal and Technical Committee is urging members to get involved in the current review of the Electronics Communication Code (ECC).
09/03/2021
News NFU Scotland is calling on the UK Government to prioritise the substantial paperwork and physical inspections associated with agri-food trade to Europe that has resulted in friction, delay, losses and extra costs.
08/03/2021
Blog Young Scots in agriculture are proving easy bait for cyber criminals writes Jenny Campbell, Regional Manager for the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC).
05/03/2021
News In Scottish Apprenticeship Week (1 to 5 March), NFU Scotland is urging all farmers and crofters looking at creating an employment opportunity to consider applying to the Apprenticeship Employer Grant (AEG) for support.
03/03/2021
News It is three years since the new Electronic Communications Code (ECC) became law in the UK, changing the rights given to telecoms operators and triggering a period of great uncertainty while operators and landowners tried to understand the new regime and its implications for telecoms sites.
03/03/2021
News NFU Scotland welcomes that provisions relating to the relinquishment and assignation of secure 1991 Act tenancies came into force on the 28 February.
03/03/2021
News NFU Scotland has broadly welcomed the Trade and Agriculture Commission’s report to government, published today (2 March 2021) as being both bold and ambitious.
02/03/2021
News Agriculture, food and rural issues must be front and centre of political debate as we head towards Scottish Parliamentary elections on Thursday, 6 May 2021.
02/03/2021