News NFU Scotland has welcomed the positive messages for Scottish farmers unveiled when Brian Pack released the short-term recommendations from his independent inquiry into future support arrangements for Scottish agriculture.
25/06/2010
News The 2010 Royal Highland Show has started with some important progress being announced on some key issues for Scotland’s farming community, according to NFUS.
24/06/2010
News The largest grant ever to be awarded by the EU in the field of animal health has been secured by Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, a fantastic result for the world class facility based in Scotland’s capital.
23/06/2010
News Scotland’s cattle keepers are to have their say on Scottish Government plans to eradicate Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) at series of meetings being organised by NFU Scotland.
17/06/2010
News NFU Scotland is delighted that lobbying efforts to secure meaningful country of origin labelling (COOL) on fresh and processed food have helped secure the backing of the European parliament in a breakthrough vote taken in Strasbourg today (Wednesday, 16 June).
16/06/2010
News NFU Scotland is calling on retailers, processors and co-ops to factor an immediate and sustained milk price increase to dairy farmers in to the current re-tendering exercise being undertaken on milk and dairy product contracts.
16/06/2010
News NFU Scotland emerged from its first official meetings with UK Government ministers yesterday (Tuesday, 15 June) confident that the relationship between the Scottish agricultural industry and Westminster was entering a new and positive period.
16/06/2010
News Scottish Government’s decision to adopt NFU Scotland’s proposals for improvements to the delivery of the Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme (LFASS) will secure a significant uplift in funding to all those receiving LFA payments from the 2011 scheme.
14/06/2010
News Scottish arable farmers left the UK’s major arable event, Cereals 2010, with a positive view of long term prospects for grain but focussed on short-term concerns over price prospects and uncertainty over input costs.
10/06/2010
News Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham visited Mull today, at the invitation of NFU Scotland, to meet farmers who are trying to strike a balance between managing the habitat of white-tailed sea eagles and successful farming businesses.
07/06/2010