News To combat tumbling consumption, NFU Scotland has urged the potato industry’s statutory levy body to consider shifting its funding emphasis from research and development to more promotion.
20/01/2015
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the launch of a levy-funded package aimed at delivering financial advice to hard-pressed dairy farmers.
16/01/2015
News The date on which Scottish farmers can commence cutting and maintaining hedges around their fields has changed from 31 July to 31 August.
15/01/2015
News With winter here, NFU Scotland is reminding those feeding or bedding stock with bale spikes, pallet forks or tines to ensure that, when traveling on the roads, they do so safely.
14/01/2015
News NFU Scotland has written to Scottish Government calling for it to toughen up rules on activity to ensure precious direct support funds are reserved solely for genuine producers.
14/01/2015
News Two important grant schemes for new entrants are now open and NFU Scotland is urging would-be applicants to check key deadlines to avoid missing out.
14/01/2015
News NFU Scotland’s ground-breaking Renewables Development Initiative (RDI) will open its 2015 programme of events in the Borders, with a look at a new anaerobic digestion plant set up on a Hawick farm.
07/01/2015
News Final round sees more than £20,000 awarded to organisations in Argyll, Angus, the Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Fife, Moray, North East and Ayrshire.
06/01/2015