News Land managers will have a unique opportunity to find out more about collaborative approaches to developing on-farm renewables projects at a free conference taking place in Argyll in November. The conference, ‘Sustainable Communities – the Way Forward’ will take place at Lochgilphead High School Joint Campus on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 November and has been arranged in partnership with NFU Scotland.
27/10/2010
News NFU Scotland’s Less Favoured Areas Committee has hit out at suggestions that the delivery of an important stream of European funding that is crucial to many of Scotland’s farmers and crofters could be altered as a consequence of forthcoming CAP Reform discussions.
26/10/2010
News NFU Scotland is to collate reports of injuries sustained by farmers whilst clipping cattle ahead of sending the animals to market or abattoir for slaughter.
26/10/2010
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NFU Scotland is calling on all major retailers to react to the continuing dysfunction in many food supply chains or run the risk of further farmer demonstrations this autumn and winter.
25/10/2010
News With new outbreaks of sheep scab being reported in the Aberdeenshire area, NFU Scotland is warning farmers across the whole of Scotland to be vigilant over the coming weeks and to protect their sheep stocks against possible outbreaks.
20/10/2010
News NFU Scotland joined other industry stakeholders in briefing European Commission officials over ongoing problems related to the controversial electronic tagging (EID) rules for sheep, introduced across the EU at the start of 2010.
20/10/2010
News Depositing mud on the road is an offence under the Highways Act. It is the legal responsibility of the farmer to ensure that every precaution is taken to avoid any mud carried off fields is deposited on the road.
20/10/2010
News With ploughing, sowing and potato harvesting ongoing across Scotland, NFUS has issued a timely reminder to farmers on the need, where possible, to keep roads free from mud and muck for the safety of other road users.
20/10/2010
News NFUS has welcomed the official opening, today (Mon 11 October), of the new Roseisle malt whisky distillery in Speyside. The £40 million distillery, which is the first of this scale to be built in Scotland in over 30 years, is part of a £100 million investment programme in Scotch whisky by Diageo.
11/10/2010
News Supermarkets are making growing profits from milk and dairy products at the same time as the majority of dairy farmers continue to receive a price for their milk that sits well below the true cost of production.
05/10/2010