News NFU Scotland is committed to finding a workable solution for Scottish sheep farmers after last week’s revelations that European Commission officials intend to penalise farmers that do not achieve 100 per cent accuracy when reading and recording sheep electronic identification (EID) tags.
25/05/2011
News NFU Scotland staff and office bearers have spent much of the past week in meetings at home and abroad trying to get to the bottom of emerging and worrying developments in the implementation of the new EU sheep electronic identification regulations.
20/05/2011
News NFU Scotland has heard first hand Vion UK's plans for growing its business to the benefit of Scottish and UK producers.
18/05/2011
News Last week’s decision by the European Commission not to accept the need for tolerances when reading Sheep EID tags makes it practically impossible for farmers and the sheep supply chain to adhere to current movement recording rules according to UK and Irish farmers leaders.
18/05/2011
News The inaugural meeting of NFU Scotland’s New Generation initiative, attended by many of Scotland’s brightest farming talents, has started mapping out the policy priorities for new entrants and young farmers in the industry.
10/05/2011
News NFU Scotland is urging all Scottish sheep keepers to look out for a key envelope from the Scottish Government landing on their doorstep in the next few days.
04/05/2011
News More than 120 dairy farmers packed into the opening meeting of NFU Scotland’s nation-wide dairy roadshow to hear about a milk price proposal that could transform the fortunes for all dairy farmers in the country.
03/05/2011
News NFU Scotland has expressed concern following confirmation that the next round of committee meetings to discuss applications to the Rural Priorities scheme will take place in September 2011, and will only consider applications for environmental (or Axis 2) projects.
02/05/2011
News Dairy farmers around Scotland are invited to hear about exciting new proposals to fundamentally change the way that they get paid for their milk.
26/04/2011
News NFU Scotland has held discussions with the European Commission to look at a new inspection regime for support schemes based around self-regulation by the farming industry. The Union believes a new system, if deemed suitable, could generate wins for Europe, Member States and farmers.
26/04/2011