Scotland

Scottish farmers and crofters are to be rewarded with a £50 ‘participation fee’ for filling in a Government survey.

Rewilding and carbon sequestration projects are putting rural livelihoods, as well as farmland, at risk, industry bodies have warned. By Ewan Pate and Jane Thynne.

The Scottish Government has announced funding for its new Preparing for Sustainable Farming (PSF) grant scheme. Ewan Pate explains what farmers need to do to qualify.

The UK and EU were still at loggerheads over the export of seed potatoes to the continent

A war of words has broken out within the top ranks of those deciding future agricultural policy in Scotland.

Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) has asked for a review of the membership of the policy-setting Agricultural Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB).

Derek Roan, one of Scotland’s best known dairy farmers, has died following an incident on his farm at Barnbarroch Farm near Dalbeattie.

One of the oldest and best known names in the world of breeding Clydesdale horses is Muirton Stud run by the Clark family. Erika Hay paid them a visit.

Orkney farmer Paul Ross has taken over the position from Aberdeenshire producer David Barron whose term had expired but will now serve as vice-chairman.

Agricultural science funding is set to become a casualty of the rapidly escalating row over the UK Government’s plans to unliterally change the Northern Ireland Protocol.