News The move to grant the Grocery Code Adjudicator (GCA) the ability to fine retailers has come immediately after calls from MPs to extend the remit of the office of Christine Tacon to indirect supply.
30/01/2015
News Planning on a Scottish campaign to raise awareness about the issue of dog fouling on agricultural land is at an advance stage.
29/01/2015
News NFU Scotland’s Milk Committee is calling for dairy producers from across the UK to pull together and take the positive story behind Scottish and British dairy produce direct to the consumer.
28/01/2015
News NFU Scotland met with hard-pressed dairy farmers from Kintyre this week (Monday, 26 January) to draw up an action plan for those affected by the current dairy crisis.
28/01/2015
News In a statement to the Scottish Parliament this afternoon (27 January), Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead outlined the final recommendations of the Agricultural Holdings Legislation Review Group (AHLRG).
27/01/2015
News NFU Scotland is encouraged that the UK Government’s Command Paper recognises Lord Smith’s recommendation that transparency and communication should be improved between governments, and will engage further with the process to see how this could be developed to ensure better representation at an EU level in future negotiations.
22/01/2015
News NFU Scotland’s ground-breaking Renewables Development Initiative (RDI) is giving Scottish farmers the chance to view the most extensive display of renewable technologies to be seen on one farm.
21/01/2015
News NFU Scotland has called for a ferry tariff scheme to be extended to commercial vehicles in a bid to boost fragile island economies.
21/01/2015
News NFU Scotland is reminding all Scottish sheep and goat keepers to return their annual inventory form before 31 January.
21/01/2015
News To combat tumbling consumption, NFU Scotland has urged the potato industry’s statutory levy body to consider shifting its funding emphasis from research and development to more promotion.
20/01/2015