More than 17,400 active farmers and crofters have now received, or will soon have received, their convergence payments, according to the latest Scottish government announcement. 

The steam has temporarily gone out of the global pig meat market as Covid-19 impacts Chinese demand but prices are still holding steady.

A larger pot of £3.5 million has been committed to the ring-fenced fund shared between the levy boards in England, Scotland and Wales in the coming year.

Within two days of the UK Government announcing its plans to control migration it has had to quickly row back on its proposals by allowing a new range of jobs to be classified as skilled.

There has been development in a controversy which has dogged the British Limousin Cattle Society (BLCS) and many of its members for the last two years.

A low pathogenic Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in Scotland has been confirmed in a Scottish free range laying flock.

Farming remains hugely important to the French economy and its success is very much tied to the operation of the EU Single market.

The issue of food standards for imported food is not going away as Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Ross MP discovered when he addressed the NFUS conference in Glasgow.

The co-operative structure was ideally suited to help farmers make the most of the data they collect, according to speakers at the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society (SAOS) annual conference (Thursday Jan 30). 

Planting trees is not, as many would argue, the easy answer to tackling climate change according to NFU Scotland president Andrew McCornick.