News Today (Monday 16 July) Farm Safety Week gets underway with a specific focus this year on not only physical safety, but also mental health and wellbeing. This year’s slogan - Your Health. Your Safety. Your Choice. – raises awareness of the importance of good mental health and the increased potential for accidents to occur when farmers or crofters aren’t in the right frame of mind.
16/07/2018
News Following the publication of today’s Brexit white paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU, the Presidents of the four UK farming unions1 have issued the following joint statement:
13/07/2018
News NFU Scotland President, Andrew McCornick, will take part in a seminal panel discussion on the future of food, farming and the rural economy post-Brexit on Monday 16 July.
11/07/2018
News The importance of planning ahead for straw and feed supplies by farmers and crofters is the focus of a new NFU Scotland campaign launched today (Wednesday 11 July).
11/07/2018
News NFU Scotland is reminding farmers and crofters to apply to Police Scotland for an agricultural dispensation for wide vehicle movements ahead of harvest starting.
10/07/2018
News NFU Scotland has written again to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs calling for the long-promised review of convergence funding to be included in decisions on Scotland’s post-Brexit agricultural support package.
02/07/2018