News NFU Scotland is urging Scotland’s farmers and crofters to respond to the BPS and Greening Loan Scheme offers letters being issued by Scottish Government this week.
05/09/2018
News Tackling cybercrime will be part of a rural crime event being held in Ayrshire on 5 October. It comes after a member in Ayrshire recently fell victim to ‘ghosting’ – a convincing scam that left the affected business thousands of pounds out of pocket.
05/09/2018
News Shoppers at ALDI in Ayr got a tasty treat on Saturday morning as members of NFU Scotland Ayrshire region tempted them with tasty Scotch Lamb PGI, heralding the start of #LoveLambWeek and the ‘Scotch Lamb, Naturally’ campaigns.
03/09/2018
News With Scotland’s farm safety record continuing to be one of the poorest across the UK, Farm Safety Partnership Scotland (FSPS) is encouraging those working within the industry to make safety a priority.
03/09/2018
News NFU Scotland has called for Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing to hold LFA support at current levels during Grantown-on-Spey meeting
30/08/2018
News Farmers and crofters across Scotland have experienced one of the most unpredictable and challenging eighteen months in memory. For some still awaiting 2017 payments, that support is increasingly in need to safeguard their businesses.
28/08/2018
Blog We are all now fully aware of the implications of the drought conditions we have just come through. Most livestock farmers are having to look at how they will get through the coming winter, it may be by having a ration planned out early enough or maybe looking at alternative sources of bedding and fodder to supplement what’s grown on the farm. Although many arable farmers are switching off the choppers on their combines, which is very much appreciated, there is still a real concern that supplies will be extremely tight going into the coming winter. One way or another the industry will pull together and get through this.
28/08/2018
News NFU Scotland’s Next Generation Group has written to Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy Fergus Ewing expressing its extreme disappointment at the recent news that the New Entrant Capital Grant Scheme will close this week.
28/08/2018
News NFU Scotland is urging tenant farmers to make use of the ‘waygo’ amnesty, first introduced in 2017.
27/08/2018
Blog Following the decision from Europe that gene editing is to be treated as a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), President Andrew McCornick believes that some decision makers could do with a science lesson.
23/08/2018