News Following the recent theft of sheep and lambs in the Borders, NFU Scotland is warning farmers that they should keep spare and replacement sheep tags secure as these crucial identifiers could help criminals hide their tracks if they are handling stolen livestock.
31/05/2012
News The national farming unions of Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland have won support from a number of European farming unions in their attempts to get the European Commission to review EU rules on sheep EID.
30/05/2012
News The inaugural meeting on Orkney’s first Monitor Farm has drawn more than seventy of the island’s farmers to Harray to participate in this groundbreaking new venture.
30/05/2012
News Five Scottish organisations have given a clear signal of commitment to drive forward Scotland’s dairy industry and place it firmly on the international map.
30/05/2012
News In a bilateral meeting between NFU Scotland and the Irish Farmers Association, both Presidents called on their respective Governments and MEPs to ensure that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget for both the Single Farm Payment (SFP) and Rural Development Programmes is secured for the next financial term.
29/05/2012
News NFU Scotland has welcomed merger proposals that could see the UK farmer-owned business Milk Link become a part of the giant European dairy co-operative, Arla Foods amba.
22/05/2012
News NFU Scotland has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Keith Brown, to voice its concerns over the future delivery of lifeline commercial ferry services to Orkney and Shetland.
15/05/2012
News NFU Scotland placed the spotlight firmly on the behaviour of milk processors when it sat down with Defra Minister Jim Paice at the Dairy Supply Chain Forum in London
11/05/2012
News NFU Scotland has warmly welcomed the UK Government’s long-awaited introduction of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill but has warned MPs not to bow to retailer bluster at the last hurdle and to establish a referee which has the power to oversee the Groceries Code effectively.
10/05/2012
News NFU Scotland has given its qualified backing to the proposed merger of the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) with the land-based colleges of Elmwood, Oatridge and Barony.
09/05/2012