News NFU Scotland is calling on the Scottish Government to help drive greater cohesion across the agri-renewables sector to capture the enormous potential that exists to generate energy on-farm and deliver on Scotland’s ambitious energy targets.
27/09/2012
News To compound a difficult growing season and problematic harvest, many Scottish oilseed rape growers may be facing deductions to the payment for their crops as a result of exceptionally high levels of free fatty acids being found in some samples.
27/09/2012
News The winds and rain that have battered parts of Scotland in recent days have compounded the huge difficulties many Scottish growers have encountered in securing the 2012 harvest.
25/09/2012
News Organisations representing UK pig producers have called on Europe to consider more transparent pricing mechanisms and more robust contractual requirements to support the hard-pressed sector.
25/09/2012
News In a briefing to Scottish politicians, NFU Scotland has laid out its priorities for the new Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP), due to commence in 2014.
24/09/2012
News NFU Scotland and its fellow UK farming Unions have celebrated 40 years in Europe with a reception in Brussels showcasing the very best in home-produced food and drink.
21/09/2012
News Europe’s Agricultural Commissioner has reassured Scottish farmers that a degree of flexibility is being built into his planned reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that will ensure Scotland fulfils its potential for farming and food production.
20/09/2012
News NFU Scotland has called for Scottish agriculture to adopt fresh thinking to help support the necessary progression of new entrants into the farming sector.
12/09/2012
News A voluntary approach to the introduction of cattle electronic identification (EID) has been backed by MEPs when they voted on amendments to the Commission’s proposal for bovine EID today (Tuesday, 11 September).
11/09/2012
News Scotland’s sheep producers are tackling the huge threat posed by sheep scab and are improving the health of the nation’s flock.
05/09/2012