News Responses to NFU Scotland’s annual harvest survey from around the country highlight the impact that weather has had on Scottish crops.
27/09/2023
News UK Government must double efforts to unlock damaging post-Brexit loss of trade with the rest of the EU.
19/09/2023
News The discovery of the devastating pig disease African Swine Fever (ASF) in Sweden has prompted NFU Scotland to remind producers and the public to do all they can to prevent the disease reaching the UK.
15/09/2023
News NFU Scotland has joined farming unions from across the UK at ‘Back British Farming’ Day in Westminster this morning (13 September), the eighth annual celebration of the farming industry’s role in producing British food and drink.
13/09/2023
News NFU Scotland has written to Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf MSP ahead of the new Parliamentary session and the publication of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government. The letter calls for his support to secure a viable future for Scotland’s farmers and crofters.
04/09/2023
Blog For those who use any Plant Protection Product (PPP), the Voluntary Initiative is here to help according to Amy Geddes, Wester Braikie Farms in Angus, a member of NFU Scotland’s Combinable Crops Committee who has recently taken over as chair of the Scottish Voluntary Initiative (VI).
01/09/2023
News Chair of NFU Scotland’s Horticulture Working Group, Iain Brown, is calling on all those who make use of seasonal labour to participate in a review of the visa scheme.
31/08/2023
Blog As I pack my bags, midge repellent, bike and, crucially, myself for the scenic of journey north to take part in the RSABI Great Glen Challenge fundraiser (Friday, 25 August) there’s a few things running through my head writes Colin Ferguson, Regional chair of Dumfries and Galloway.
24/08/2023
Blog Press reports that the UK Government is to further delay introducing post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the EU will anger and appal the Scottish food and farming sector according to President Martin Kennedy.
04/08/2023
News NFU Scotland is to call on the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine the fertiliser market in the UK following record profits being posted by fertiliser manufacturers producing and supplying the UK market.
21/07/2023