News NFU Scotland is calling on the Scottish Government to increase the agri-environment budget as a matter of priority to specifically fund the significant levels of capital investment that will be required on many Scottish farms to comply with new slurry storage rules coming into force over the next four years.
29/03/2022
News NFU Scotland is calling on the UK Government, Scottish Government, processors, retailers and the banking sector to take urgent action to address the immediate risks to domestic food production in the interests of consumers and producers.
16/03/2022
News Sarah Law and Rosslyn Reid have joined the current senior agent Richard Thompson as partners in the Keith and Turriff offices.
11/03/2022
News An NFU Scotland delegation has undertaken two days of intensive lobbying in Westminster with food security, the labour crisis and future support arrangements on the agenda.
11/03/2022
News Highland farmer Hugh Fraser has mapped out the policy priorities for NFU Scotland’s influential Livestock committee in the year ahead.
10/03/2022
News Matthew Steel has been confirmed as the new Chair of NFU Scotland’s Next Generation Committee, replacing Orkney’s Peter Moss who held the post since 2017.
09/03/2022
News NFU Scotland continues to offer support to fellow farmers in Ukraine as the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion deepens.
08/03/2022
News The future of agri-renewables in the North East will be on the agenda when NFU Scotland hosts its first North East Renewables event of 2022 in the Glen Garioch room, Thainstone on Thursday, 3 March from 7pm until 9.30pm.
24/02/2022
News The Royal Northern Agricultural Society (RNAS) spring show returns to Thainstone on Wednesday 2 March from 8am - 5pm, and NFU Scotland members alongside their family and friends are invited to come along to The Union’s stand to discuss the importance of looking after our mental and physical health.
23/02/2022
News NFU Scotland President, Martin Kennedy has expressed his frustration in the slow progress being made by Scottish Government’s Agricultural Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB) and decision makers to provide details relating to Scotland’s Future Agriculture Policy.
11/02/2022