Arable
Scottish farmers turning off the choppers to help livestock neighbours
Arable farmers across the country have been turning off the choppers to help their neighbours with livestock. Ian Sands, chairman...
NFUS
Agri-Business
Scottish growers say they fear a 'second season where harvest will go unpicked'
Scottish growers say they fear a second successive season where crops will go unpicked due to extreme labour shortages. National Farmers’...
Agri-Business
Farm Safety Week: Seeing a worker thrown to the ground was the first sign I had hit a power line
Today marks the last day of Farm Safety Week, with one Fife farmer talking about the dangers of overhead power...
Agri-Business
Scotland's Less Favourable Area Scheme: 4,675 payments on their way today
The 2017 Less Favourable Area Support Scheme (LFASS) payments for farmers and crofters in Scotland have now started. 4,675 payments worth...
Agri-Business
Straw and feed: Buyers urged to plan ahead, look at alternatives and collaborate
Straw and feed buyers, as well as those who grow for them, have been urged to plan ahead, look at alternatives...
Agri-Business
Scottish farmers urged to apply for dispensation ahead of harvest
Nation Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) is reminding farmers and crofters to apply to Police Scotland for an agricultural dispensation for...
Beef
Save straw supplies and prepare for winter now, union warns
NFU Scotland president Andrew McCornick has warned livestock farmers to prepare now for this year’s winter, suggesting this winter could see...
Agri Politics
Farmers and crofters look to British Government to 'step up the pace' on Brexit
Scottish farmers have called for clarity on funding, trade and labour post-Brexit, just nine months from the UK’s expected departure...
