News As Scotland’s soft fruit season draws to a close and vegetable harvesting and packing gears up for the autumn, NFU Scotland has called on the UK Government to make decisions now that will allow the crucial recruitment of non-UK staff in 2021.
22/09/2020
News With the UK officially out of the EU from 31 December 2020, NFU Scotland is striving to prepare its farming and crofting members for the changes their businesses could face.
17/09/2020
News Defra’s 12-week long consultation on “Contractual relationships in the UK dairy industry” closed last night. This consultation was in response to concerns raised that primary producers, including dairy farmers, tend to occupy positions of relative market weakness in the food supply chain.
16/09/2020
News Scotland’s leading rural and environmental organisations have written an open letter to Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, calling on the Scottish Government to urgently provide clarity on how it intends to move forward its work on tackling flytipping.
16/09/2020
News NFU Scotland has written to Scottish Government to request clarity on future agri-environment management to secure the confidence of Scottish farmers and crofters to continue to deliver on biodiversity and climate change outcomes whilst producing high quality, sustainable food.
15/09/2020
News NFU Scotland’s newly established Climate Change Advisory Panel has met via Zoom for the first time today (11 September 2020).
11/09/2020
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement from Scottish Government that its pilot grant scheme, the Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grant Scheme (SACGS), will be open to applications on Monday 7 September.
03/09/2020
News Dairy farmers are being urged to complete the UK Government’s milk contracts consultation before the 15 September deadline
01/09/2020
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Bill passing Stage 3 in the Scottish Parliament yesterday (26 August) as a key step towards post-Brexit stability.
27/08/2020
News NFUS is seeking up to date views from farmers and crofters on the impact that White-tailed (Sea) Eagles may be having on their businesses and their livelihoods.
26/08/2020