farmers and crofters

Chair of Food and Agriculture Stakeholder Taskforce (FAST), Neil Wilson said the funding needs to be seen to be an investment into the industry and rural economy

Alex Paterson previously served as chief executive of Historic Environment Scotland and the Highlands and Islands Enterprise

TheThe local authority has agreed to donate £10,000 to Farmstrong over the next two years to fund vital wellbeing activities across Perth & Kinross

A Committee report found the approach of Part 1 of the Bill was ‘potentially burdensome and bureaucratic'

Rebecca McLellan keeps rare Castlemilk Moorit sheep at her farm near Rockcliffe, a breed that originated at the Castlemilk Estate in Dumfriesshire in the early 1900s

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, Wendy Chamberlain, accused the Government of failing to consider the impact of its proposed IHT changes on Scottish tenant farmers, despite raising the problem ‘four times in the last three months'

The Cairngorms Crofters & Farmers Community group voice their concerns about reintroducing lynx to the National Park

Jonathan Hedges, chair of the campaigning group, said each farmer brought a wealth of experience and expertise to the table, while covering wide geographical areas in Scotland

From gaps in grant funding to opportunities for Scottish farmers and crofters; here is the latest farm grants news for your business