News The EU committee of member state representatives’ vote on the 5 year relicensing of herbicide Glyphosate has failed to reach a qualified majority and will be postponed until a further date.
09/11/2017
News A delegation from NFU Scotland is be in Brussels today (Tuesday 7 November) and tomorrow, ahead of a decision on the reauthorisation of the essential herbicide glyphosate, expected on Thursday.
07/11/2017
News NFU Scotland’s latest shelfwatch, looking at almost 35,000 packs of pork, bacon and gammon in 47 supermarket stores, has found that consumers will often struggle to identify just where the meat has come from.
01/11/2017
News NFU Scotland’s remains fully committed to striking the right Brexit deal for Scotland’s farmers and crofters.
27/10/2017
News ‘Tackling Rural Anti-Social Behaviour’ event in Ayrshire well received as local authorities look to educate on growing problems.
24/10/2017
News NFU Scotland’s Autumn Conference in Perthshire this Friday (27 October) is to feature a top bill of political speakers taking stock of progress in the Brexit negotiations.
23/10/2017
News NFUS members are invited to join keynote speakers Peter Melens and Vivienne MacKinnon, Scottish Governments’ Animal Health team leaders, Nigel Miller from Livestock Health Scotland and Johnny Williams, Senior Procurement Officer with Farmstock (Scotland) Ltd.
18/10/2017
News NFU Scotland members and staff met with SEPA yesterday to voice their opposition to proposed massive increases in charges for water abstraction licences.
18/10/2017
News NFU Scotland believes that farmers and crofters will begin to receive their first BES payments in October following almost two years of calf genomic sampling and recording data on calf performance.
17/10/2017
News Having gained a lot of support and momentum from their first three meetings, the Women in Agriculture group is hosting another event at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Gogarburn, with the appropriate theme being ‘Gaining Influence’.
17/10/2017