Farming support was protected in headline terms in the Scottish Budget presented by Finance Secretary John Swinney last week.

Environmental specialists at SAC Consulting, part of Scotland’s Rural College, are using drone-mounted light detection and ranging sensors to estimate above-ground carbon storage in hedges and trees.

NFU Scotland is gearing up for an intense period of political activity in 202

A NEW Members Bill on fly tipping proposed by Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser now has the requisite cross-party support to give him the right to introduce it to Parliament.

The new £62 million International Barley Hub (IBH) has been officially opened by UK Government Minister for Scotland, Malcolm Offord.

The former director of a free-range egg company in Caithness has been jailed for two years and three months for animal welfare and hygiene offences which led to the deaths of about 2,000 hens.

Land suitable for planting trees has soared in value in recent years with the latest figures from forestry agencies Goldcrest and Tillhill showing a 73 percent increase in only a year.

Land suitable for planting trees has soared in value in recent years with the latest figures from forestry agencies Goldcrest and Tillhill showing a 73 percent increase in only a year.

Nine farms across Scotland are set to join the Monitor Farm programme for 2022 to 2026.

With limited improved pasture, silage ground at the James Hutton Institute’s hill farm in Aberdeenshire has to ‘punch above its weight’, as Ewan Pate found out.