News The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is currently requesting views from farmers, growers and others in the food supply chain on the future need for the levy body, and to gain a better understanding of what stakeholders believe the levy body should deliver.
26/09/2018
News Ahead of National GetOutside Day this weekend, NFU Scotland is reminding people to enjoy the countryside responsibly.
26/09/2018
News NFU Scotland has urged Scottish Government to look more closely at the impact that a Deposit Return Scheme could have on specific sectors in the Scottish food chain that are heavily reliant on plastic packaging, such as milk.
26/09/2018
News A long, cold, wet winter suddenly turned into the joint hottest summer on record for the UK, and Scottish farmers feared the worst for their 2018 harvest.
19/09/2018
News NFU Scotland is once again seeking harsher penalties for those who let their dogs attack livestock, following the sentencing of an Argyll man earlier this week.
14/09/2018
News In a letter to three Secretaries of State, NFU Scotland has called for changes to be made to the way the UK proposes to deal with new products seeking Protected Food Names (PFN) status post-Brexit.
13/09/2018
News NFU Scotland regards today’s publication of an Agriculture Bill as the next step towards determining the industry’s post-Brexit future and it will study and discuss in detail the proposals presented to Parliament.
12/09/2018
News NFU Scotland has used an evidence session with Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Select Committee to urge all politicians to get behind the Chequers Brexit proposals.
10/09/2018
News To promote the procurement of fresh, local lamb in Scottish schools, NFU Scotland, with Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), Tayside Contracts and Perth & Kinross Council, have run a pilot campaign introducing a different lamb meal onto Tayside school meal plans, every week, for the last four weeks.
07/09/2018
News The dangers of working with slurry gases has been highlighted in a video recorded by an Argyll farmer, who believes his investment in a gas monitor has saved his life on more than one occasion.
06/09/2018