News NFU Scotland has, this week, officially welcomed John Davidson as its new Chief Executive.
28/06/2023
News Woodland Trust Scotland, Soil Association Scotland and NFU Scotland have called on the Scottish Government to help enable farmers and crofters to integrate trees alongside food production.
26/06/2023
News With Scotland’s farmers and crofters committed to sustainability and the environment, NFU Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to reconsider its hardening of the green agenda if it wants Scotland to continue to address food security concerns, look after our environment and grow our economy.
22/06/2023
News NFU Scotland is calling on UK and Scottish Governments to remove the ‘smoke and mirrors’ around future agricultural funding to deliver direction and certainty to Scotland’s farmers and crofters.
22/06/2023
News NFU Scotland has received a categorical assurance from Scotland’s Deputy First Minister and Finance Secretary, Shona Robison MSP that £33 million deferred from the agricultural budget last year will be returned to the agricultural budget this year.
16/06/2023
News Scottish farming and land management organisations are calling for Scottish Government to urgently approve the chemical Asulox for use to control Bracken, an invasive weed which poses a significant threat to biodiversity, drinking water quality, agriculture, animal welfare, and public health.
15/06/2023
News Lockerbie dairy farmer David Hyslop, and sons, David and Martin, hosted a cross party group of MSPs this week to highlight the significant strides that the dairy sector is making in producing high quality, high welfare food whilst reducing its emissions.
15/06/2023
News Joint statement on behalf of NFU Scotland, Scottish Quality Crops, Quality Meat Scotland and Agricultural Industries Confederation calls for unnecessary bureaucratic burden to be avoided.
14/06/2023
News After its recent meeting, NFU Scotland’s Poultry Working Group is urging the poultry sector to get behind the Pick-ups For Peace initiative, where farmers and the farming industry have been supporting the war effort in Ukraine.
12/06/2023
News Hill farmer Brian Walker, an NFU Scotland member from Inveraray in Argyll is calling on the Scottish Government to urgently provide the emergency authorisation for the bracken control herbicide Asulam for the benefit of upland farming and crofting across Scotland.
09/06/2023