News News that Europe has reached a headline agreement on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy will see the focus now shift to identifying how the proposals will be introduced at a Scottish level in 2015.
26/06/2013
News Applications to Scottish Government aid schemes are building as the July 5 deadline approaches.
26/06/2013
News NFU Scotland will be in Luxembourg and Brussels this week as Europe closes in on a deal on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
24/06/2013
News Scotland's vast areas of soft features must be allowed to count as Environmental Focus Areas under the new CAP says NFUS President Nigel Miller.
21/06/2013
News Members of NFU Scotland’s Board of Directors met with Defra Farming Minister David Heath and Scottish Secretary of State Michael Moore at the Highland Show, Scotland’s annual four-day food and farming event that started at Ingliston near Edinburgh today (Thursday, 20 June).
20/06/2013
News NFU Scotland is writing to all its members, urging them to assess if their livestock are at risk of contracting the Schmallenberg virus (SBV). If the answer is yes, then they must put an action plan in place.
18/06/2013
News Ahead of CAP talks reaching their climax in the next few weeks, NFU Scotland's President, Nigel Miller and staff have met with Defra minister, Owen Paterson and his advisors to reiterate Scotland's priorities which have yet to be addressed in concluding discussions between the EU Commission, EU Parliament and Member State governments via the EU Council.
12/06/2013
News Those boarding the CalMac ferry running between Oban and Mull this Friday (June 14) will have local sheep farmers tempting them with tasty bites of delicious Scotch lamb.
11/06/2013
News NFU Scotland's Less Favoured Areas Committee believes the Scottish Government must act with urgency in introducing a revamped Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme (LFASS) to run between now and 2016.
07/06/2013
News Scottish shoppers looking to support Scottish farmers are being misled into buying imported produce as a result of ineffective rules around product labelling.
07/06/2013