News The OnFarm podcast team, presented by Scene and Herd Director Anna Davies, were at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow’s city centre to record not one but two episodes of their increasingly popular Scottish farming podcast.
25/02/2020
News NFU Scotland is reminding farmers and crofters that the hedge cutting ban comes into place on 1 March as the bird nesting and rearing season begins.
25/02/2020
News NFU Scotland has written to the Scottish Government to highlight their disappointment that 2019 Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS) contracts are still not in place, hindering the progress of applicants in implementing biodiversity and climate change mitigation measures.
21/02/2020
News Ahead of a debate in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow (20 February 2020), NFU Scotland welcomed the opportunity to highlight the positive role that Scotland’s farmers and crofters are playing in tackling climate change.
19/02/2020
News Scotland’s food and farming industries will be put at risk by the UK Government’s proposals for migration and the introduction of a points-based system (PBS) as announced last night (18 February).
19/02/2020
News At NFU Scotland’s Annual Dinner last week (Thursday 6 February) a fantastic £4194 was raised for Scotland’s favourite rural charities – RSABI and the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET).
13/02/2020
News One of NFU Scotland’s highest accolades has this year been awarded posthumously to a North East stalwart who tirelessly represented NFU Scotland members and hill farmers for many decades.
07/02/2020
News NFU Scotland and NFU Mutual’s prestigious Ambassador Award has been presented to Dumfries and Galloway dairy farmer Tracey Roan for her outstanding advocacy of the farming industry in general, and dairying and Dumfries and Galloway in particular.
07/02/2020
News The Membership Flame – an NFU Scotland award that recognises outstanding efforts in recruitment and retention of members - has gone to the hard-working Perth team of Margaret Hebbourn, Katy Neill and Marc Robb. The achievement is all the greater given that Margaret and Katy have only been in post since 2017 and Marc joined the team late last year.
07/02/2020
News Speaking at NFU Scotland’s Conference, President Andrew McCornick has called on legislators and policy makers to deliver for Scottish agriculture as Brexit enters its final stage.
06/02/2020