A grant from the Garfield West Foundation has been awarded to the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust (NFST) to fund a business and mental resilience programme.
Industry leaders remain optimistic about a positive trade future post-Brexit following a year of strong livestock prices.
The NFU have said the decision will bring short term certainty for organic producers
It was a different format this year for the LiveScot event held at Lanark market with no spectators and animals judged in the pens, but there was a good turnout of livestock and strong demand from buyers.
UK ministers have been urged to negotiate a seven-year derogation from EU scrapie rules to allow the trade in breeding sheep between Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI) to continue.
Tributes have been paid to a farmer and AHDB beef and lamb board member who died suddenly at his farm.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has paid £1.67 billion of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) money to more than 95 per cent of farmers in the first day of the payment window.