News With Scottish farmers and crofters facing delayed and reduced direct support payments, NFU Scotland has written to the Scottish Parliament’s lead committee on rural affairs to express its concerns.
14/10/2015
News With Scottish farmers facing delayed and reduced direct support payments, NFU Scotland has written to the agricultural supply trade urging it to make its members aware of the impending cash flow concerns for Scottish farms.
13/10/2015
News Joint calls are being made for greater transparency over rent proposals for tenanted farms following a difficult year for the industry.
13/10/2015
News A vital new scheme to support sheep producers in Scotland’s hills and uplands will close for applications on Friday (16 October).
12/10/2015
News NFU Scotland welcomed Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell onto a Dumfriesshire dairy farm today, following up a successful meeting with NFUS Board members at Westminster last month.
09/10/2015
News Scotland’s soft fruit and vegetable growers will be placed at a huge competitive disadvantage when the National Living Wage comes into force next April.
07/10/2015
News Believing that the Scottish Government will not meet its December window for delivering the new CAP support payments, NFU Scotland has called on it to come clean on the payment timetable.
07/10/2015
News NFU Scotland, NFU Mutual, Police Scotland and other stakeholders are working hard to make the countryside a safer place to live and work.
06/10/2015
Blog This is a challenging period for us all, with most of Scotland’s dairy farmers receiving a price lower than their cost of production writes Graeme Kilpatrick, Chair of NFU Scotland's Milk Committee.
02/10/2015
News The exchange rate to be used to calculate support to be delivered through Scotland’s new Basic Payment Scheme is €1= £0.73129.
30/09/2015