News NFU Scotland has asked the Scottish Government to lift support to the Scottish beef industry in 2014 by adopting measures that could benefit almost every Scottish farming business.
06/11/2013
News A new helpline - 07733 136424 - has been launched today (6 November) by NFU Scotland to assist its members with the plethora of queries that surround the legal use of agricultural vehicles, both on and off road.
06/11/2013
News NFU Scotland has used its annual Council meeting, held this year at Battleby, near Perth, to debate the major strategic issues that the Scottish farming industry will face in the coming weeks, months and years.
30/10/2013
News NFU Scotland has written to the European Commission, seeking clarification that the nation’s Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme (LFASS) can be re-based.
29/10/2013
News NFU Scotland is urging any of its crofting members with concerns over existing legislation to respond to the review of crofting law, also known as ‘the Sump’.
29/10/2013
News NFU Scotland will tackle two of the biggest issues facing Scottish agriculture at its annual council meeting, taking place near Perth next week (Wednesday 30 October).
25/10/2013
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement that many new entrants to the sector are to receive a boost to cashflows this autumn and next spring as awards under the Scottish Government’s £2 million New Entrants Scheme commence.
23/10/2013
News Projects in Aberdeenshire, the Highlands, Forth and Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders all get funding boost.
23/10/2013
News NFU Scotland’s newly established Renewable Development Initiative is inviting farmers to come on site and see the technology in action for themselves.
23/10/2013
News NFU Scotland has voiced disappointment that a legal challenge lodged by German shepherds regarding Europe’s unpopular sheep identification rules has been unsuccessful.
22/10/2013