Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports.
Ambitious renewable energy targets will require a large amount of agricultural land across Scotland and the rest of the UK, with the impact not well-understood.
Scottish crofters can now apply for larger sums of money to upgrade their housing under the Croft House Grant.
Cover crops can play as important a role in Scotland as they do further south but there are some management differences.
Farmers need to ask themselves where they want their business to be in 10 years’ time if they wanted to take control and manage change before it manages them.
Common grazings have been a feature of the crofting areas of Scotland for centuries and cover still over 500,000 hectares of the highlands and islands.
One or more national park was likely to be on the way in Scotland, but NFU Scotland has raised concerns that the move would stifle growth in the countryside.
Slow progress on climate change mitigation policies mean the Scottish Government is being left behind, not only by other countries but by the Scottish farming industry itself.
The headline ‘cow burps seen from space’ is guaranteed to reinforce the widely held assumption that cattle are amongst the biggest contributor to global warning.
Contracts between farmers and companies wishing to offset their environmental impact are now coming to the fore.