News Union President highlights need to address serious policy flaws that are impacting agricultural and rural businesses and threatening national food security.
26/03/2025
News NFU Scotland calls on MSPs and Scottish Ministers to consider key changes to the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
26/03/2025
News Scottish farmers and crofters will start to receive valuable payments as part of the Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS) on Friday 28 March.
26/03/2025
News Newly elected Union Vice-President keen to speak to membership on Skye and the Western Isles about crofting challenges, issues and opportunities during three-day roadshow.
18/03/2025
News NFU Scotland President Andrew Connon joined fellow farming union Presidents on top of a combine harvester yesterday (4 March) to address an estimated crowd of 10,000 who had joined the Pancake Day rally to protest against the UK Government’s proposed changes to inheritance tax and the damage they would inflict on the majority of family farming businesses.
05/03/2025
News NFU Scotland has reaffirmed its opposition to the designation of a new National Park in Galloway, emphasising that the proposal lacks clear benefits for farmers, food producers, and the rural economy.
20/02/2025
News Ministers and Treasury officials showed no interest in discussing alternatives to damaging family farm tax proposals at meetings held in London today (18 February).
18/02/2025
News NFU Scotland President Andrew Connon will meet with Treasury officials in Westminster on Tuesday 18 February as momentum behind the campaign to #StopTheFamilyFarmTax continues to build.
13/02/2025
News At NFU Scotland’s Annual Dinner last week (Thursday 6 February) a fantastic £5247 was raised for Scotland’s favourite rural charities – RSABI and the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET).
11/02/2025
News NFU Scotland has condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the illegal, deliberate release of feral pigs or wild boar into the Cairngorms.
11/02/2025