News NFU Scotland, along with other UK Unions, has been successful in securing support from European politicians that should avoid complex and costly pollution controls being applied to many more of Scotland’s pig and poultry units.
08/07/2010
News A meeting between NFU Scotland and Treasury officials offered few positives for Scottish farming as the true scale of budgetary constraints became clear.
06/07/2010
News Scotland’s Tenant Farming Forum (TFF), which aims to promote a healthy tenanted farm sector in Scotland, has announced that its new independent chairman will be Professor Phil Thomas.
06/07/2010
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the positive messages for Scottish farmers unveiled when Brian Pack released the short-term recommendations from his independent inquiry into future support arrangements for Scottish agriculture.
25/06/2010
News The 2010 Royal Highland Show has started with some important progress being announced on some key issues for Scotland’s farming community, according to NFUS.
24/06/2010
News The largest grant ever to be awarded by the EU in the field of animal health has been secured by Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, a fantastic result for the world class facility based in Scotland’s capital.
23/06/2010
News Scotland’s cattle keepers are to have their say on Scottish Government plans to eradicate Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) at series of meetings being organised by NFU Scotland.
17/06/2010
News NFU Scotland is delighted that lobbying efforts to secure meaningful country of origin labelling (COOL) on fresh and processed food have helped secure the backing of the European parliament in a breakthrough vote taken in Strasbourg today (Wednesday, 16 June).
16/06/2010
News NFU Scotland is calling on retailers, processors and co-ops to factor an immediate and sustained milk price increase to dairy farmers in to the current re-tendering exercise being undertaken on milk and dairy product contracts.
16/06/2010
News NFU Scotland emerged from its first official meetings with UK Government ministers yesterday (Tuesday, 15 June) confident that the relationship between the Scottish agricultural industry and Westminster was entering a new and positive period.
16/06/2010