News NFU Scotland emerged from its first official meetings with UK Government ministers yesterday (Tuesday, 15 June) confident that the relationship between the Scottish agricultural industry and Westminster was entering a new and positive period.
16/06/2010
News Scottish Government’s decision to adopt NFU Scotland’s proposals for improvements to the delivery of the Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme (LFASS) will secure a significant uplift in funding to all those receiving LFA payments from the 2011 scheme.
14/06/2010
News Scottish arable farmers left the UK’s major arable event, Cereals 2010, with a positive view of long term prospects for grain but focussed on short-term concerns over price prospects and uncertainty over input costs.
10/06/2010
News Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham visited Mull today, at the invitation of NFU Scotland, to meet farmers who are trying to strike a balance between managing the habitat of white-tailed sea eagles and successful farming businesses.
07/06/2010
News Livestock representatives of the UK and Irish farming unions have agreed they will continue to work together to secure a strong and fully funded Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) following a meeting in Edinburgh last week.
07/06/2010
News NFU Scotland has welcomed European-approved changes to GB’s health status with regards to the devastating livestock disease, Bluetongue, and has repeated its call for Scottish livestock farmers not to import animals from the Continent during the summer months
04/06/2010
News Scottish industry bodies speak ahead of World Environment Day
On the eve of World Environment Day (Saturday, 5 June), three of Scotland’s leading agricultural organisations – NFU Scotland, Quality Meat Scotland and SAOS – have issued a joint statement that maps out a route for the Scottish industry to tackle climate change.
04/06/2010
News NFU Scotland has welcomed details on how the Scottish Government’s £200,000 emergency aid fund, announced in April, will support those Scottish sheep farmers whose flocks were hit hardest by the worst winter in living memory.
03/06/2010
News NFU Scotland has told a major forestry conference that Scottish agriculture will continue to contribute towards Scottish Government targets of expanding woodland cover, but that policy priorities must focus on food production and having active farmers manage the land.
02/06/2010
News NFU Scotland is urging every cattle keeper in the country to carefully consider a Scottish Government consultation on a groundbreaking scheme to eradicate the costly disease Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) from the national herd.
01/06/2010