News Latest Legal Background to offspring of cloned cattle case
06/08/2010
News Since details of the situation first emerged NFU Scotland has been in close and constant contact with the farmers involved, C Innes and Sons of Auldearn and government authorities.
05/08/2010
News NFU Scotland has expressed concern at the management of one of the Scottish Government's flagship funding schemes, Rural Priorities. Whilst recognising the crucial role of the scheme for rural communities and the huge benefits secured for the environment and economy in rural areas, NFUS believes the management of the scheme requires significant improvement.
03/08/2010
News New European Commission proposals to simplify agricultural and forestry vehicle laws and improve safety have been welcomed in principle by NFU Scotland, although the Union awaits further details to ascertain whether they will present unnecessary cost and red tape.
29/07/2010
News The farming leaders of NFU Scotland and NFU England and Wales have met with the UK Government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP in London today (Wednesday, 28 July) to discuss the central role that rural businesses continue to play in the nation’s economic recovery.
28/07/2010
News NFU Scotland, following extensive consultation with its members has come out in support of plans for a national eradication scheme for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD).
21/07/2010
News European citizens will have a greater role in shaping the forthcoming reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) than in any previous revisions of the CAP judging by discussions at a major scene-setting conference in Brussels.
20/07/2010
News NFU Scotland has welcomed the publication of a second European Road Map that offers several new opportunities to strip out some of the costs to Scotland’s livestock sector associated with eradicating Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
16/07/2010
News NFU Scotland has met with key stakeholders to discuss the threat posed to the health of Scotland’s farm animals by working and pet dogs being exercised in the countryside.
15/07/2010
News NFU Scotland believes European Commission proposals to nationalise the approvals process for planting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could rob Europe of a common position on GMs and drive confusion into the debate on the role of GM in agriculture rather than adding clarity.
13/07/2010