Farm Life

If Scottish farmers are to address the climate emergency, they need guarantees that they will not be undercut by cheap, environmentally damaging imports from abroad, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

Does the farming industry choose to portray itself as a climate change victim or villain, or is it ready to embrace its role as a champion of positive and responsible action?

The Agriculture Bill has officially become law and been made an Act after receiving Royal Assent today (November 11).

As the UK heads into a second lockdown I felt very lucky, if a little guilty, to be heading for Iceland.

Thieves wielding crowbars broke into a farm and smashed their way into two milk vending machines, stealing cash from the farm’s honesty box.

The struggle that has been 2020 has now reached November and I can only pray that it is not going to be as wet as October, which was the wettest October on record in our part of north east Scotland.

There’s no people like show people. Livestock shows, from the smallest village affair to the grandest of them all, are the heartbeat of so many like-minded people’s lives.

A family-run dairy business has overtaken the likes of Irn Bru and Cadbury’s to become the number one Scottish food brand in Scotland.