Farm Business

The issue of future funding must be addressed if Scotland’s farming industry is to survive, leaders of NFU Scotland told the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice this week.

NFU Scotland has welcomed a new regional manager for Dumfries and Galloway.

The Governments failure to include a Food Bill in the Queens Speech this week has been described as deeply disappointing.

The Government’s failure to include a Food Bill in the Queen’s Speech this week has been described as ‘deeply disappointing’.

The Efra Select Committee has been left without a chair since the incumbent, Neil Parish, resigned as an MP. The formal list of candidates to replace him has not yet been released, but Abi Kay looks at the runners and riders.

A 70-year-old Somerset farmer has received hospital treatment after being struck with a rock by a dog walker while ploughing a field.

National Pig Association chief executive Dr Zoe Davies has announced she will be leaving the organisation after 14 years of service.

Scotlands pig sector remains on the brink of collapse with solutions needed to turn the sector around, NFU Scotlands pig working group chair Jamie Wyllie has said.

In this week’s Farming Matters, Aled Jones, president of NFU Cymru talks to Farmers Guardian about the impact of NVZ rules on Welsh farming.

Scotland’s pig sector remains ‘on the brink of collapse’ with solutions needed to turn the sector around, NFU Scotland’s pig working group chair Jamie Wyllie has said.