News As Scotland’s harvest stutters forward, NFU Scotland’s annual harvest survey has been launched.
26/08/2020
News Farmers are being urged to strictly observe public health physical distancing guidelines as the Autumn sales in Scotland’s livestock marts get underway.
25/08/2020
News NFU Scotland is urging all dairy farmers in Scotland to complete the UK Government’s consultation on new, fairer conditions for milk contracts.
19/08/2020
News Responding to the UK Government white paper on internal markets, NFU Scotland said it is of the utmost priority that the UK Internal Market is enabled to operate as it does now.
14/08/2020
News NFU Scotland and Scottish Land & Estates write to Scottish Government over increasing fly-tipping issue. The long list of incidents includes two tonnes of meat processing waste dumped in a Lanarkshire burn
12/08/2020
News Scottish farmers and crofters have started to receive loan scheme offer letters from Scottish Government and NFU Scotland is urging recipients to ‘opt in’.
05/08/2020
News For the majority of families in Scotland the last few months have been the longest period since starting school that they have had their children at home, due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
05/08/2020
News A research project at Robert Gordon University (RGU) which explores the mental wellbeing of Scotland’s farmers is moving forward to develop and test a suitable intervention, hand-in-hand with farmers, to support their mental health and wellbeing now and in the future.
05/08/2020
News As pupils across Scotland receive their exam results today (Tuesday 4 August), NFU Scotland has joined by Lantra, the Young Farmers (SAYFC) and other organisations in highlighting the different career paths they can now take to get into agriculture.
04/08/2020
News NFU Scotland is urging the public to only buy seeds and plants from a trusted supplier and asks anyone who receives unsolicited parcels of plant seeds through the post to report it and not to plant them.
03/08/2020