News NFU Scotland has welcomed the findings of a Westminster committee report into exports from the UK to the EU and calls on Government to respond to the recommendations in the report with urgency.
29/04/2021
News NFU Scotland has said more must be done to urgently address fuel filter blocking as issues begin to emerge again across the UK.
28/04/2021
News Scotland’s arable sector has successfully concluded spring sowing.
28/04/2021
News Farmer Patrick Barbour, from Highland Perthshire, has won the search for Scotland’s climate friendly farming champion.
27/04/2021
News NFU Scotland has condemned Scottish Government proposals for silage, slurry and digestate as excessively blunt and ill-thought-out.
13/04/2021
News The Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (SSBSS) supports producers breeding beef calves from suckler cows, ensuring that herds remain at a level that sustains Scotland’s commercial beef industry.
08/04/2021
News NFU Scotland’s Next Generation Group are reminding members that they have developed a range of colourful, educational posters which are free for all farmers and crofters to download and fill out.
07/04/2021
News As members of the National Sea Eagle Stakeholder Panel and representing farmers and crofters who have endured, in some cases, decades of predation by white-tailed eagles (WTE), NFU Scotland does not believe enough is being done to address key issues and deliver the White-tailed Eagle Action Plan led by NatureScot.
07/04/2021
News A new film looking at mental health in the farming community, called “Unearthing Farming Lives” is currently “in the making”, with the trailer now available to view
05/04/2021
News Sarah joins the Union’s Edinburgh based Head Office team to lead on the already highly regarded lobbying work being done on key environmental issues including water and air quality, pesticides, biodiversity, farm plastics and flooding.
05/04/2021