News NFU Scotland has attended the official launch of the start of the Edinburgh-Glasgow rail project to ensure that the interests of farmers affected by the upgrade are given due consideration.
15/06/2011
News NFU Scotland has called on world famous pop star Morrissey to give his backing to Scottish fruit and vegetable growers on his current tour of Scotland, which kicks off in Perth tonight (Wednesday, 15 June).
15/06/2011
News Scotland’s leading farming organisation has used a major UK arable event to call on Europe to take a proportionate and common-sense approach to the integration of ‘greening’ measures into the planned reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
15/06/2011
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the support shown in Brussels today as leading politicians put their weight behind finding a workable solution to EU rules around the electronic identification (EID) of sheep and recording of sheep movements.
14/06/2011
News The growing incidence of cattle psoroptic mange – the bovine equivalent of Sheep Scab – has prompted NFU Scotland to call for the disease to be made notifiable to prevent it getting a grip in Scottish herds.
14/06/2011
News The perseverance and diligence shown by Great Britain’s livestock farmers and other industry stakeholders have seen the country regains its Bluetongue-free status.
13/06/2011
News NFU Scotland is deeply disappointed that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to proceed with low level increases in the tariffs available to those looking to generate energy from anaerobic digestion. Failure to significantly increase the rates now threatens to stifle the potential that the technology offers to Scotland.
10/06/2011
News Following the annual meeting of the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB) yesterday (Wednesday 8 June) it is being proposed that the minimum agricultural wage increases by 2.5% from 1 October 2011 and that agricultural workers be given an extra day’s holiday. The SAWB will meet again on 19 August to decide whether its proposals for increases in wage rates from 1 October 2011 will go ahead.
09/06/2011
News A delegation from NFU Scotland is in Kenya to view first hand the challenges that face pastoral farming and agriculture in the country and identify if the Union can contribute to ongoing improvements to farming in the region in the future.
08/06/2011
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement today (3 June 2011) that the Brechin abattoir in Angus will now be used for slaughtering pigs, as Tulip and A P Jess enter into a long term contract in the East of Scotland.
03/06/2011