Scotland

Leading on the first of the three days at Stirling was a 10,000gns top call for Aberdeen-Angus bulls.

Despite everything that has been thrown at them in terms of adverse weather and Covid-19 restrictions, it seems from an early estimate that Scottish farmers may have produced their biggest harvest for 10 years.

Forestry and Land Scotland, the government agency responsible for much of the country’s forestry, has stirred considerable controversy over its decision to authorise a cull of red deer hinds which began on September 1. 

The Internal Market Bill will force all four UK nations to submit to the lowest common denominator when it comes to standards, selling farmers down the river, says Liberal Democrat agriculture spokesperson Tim Farron.

The Scottish Tenant Farmers Association (STFA) has warned a cash boost for tree planting across Scotland will threaten the future of the country’s tenanted farming sector.

Millers of Speyside, based in Grantown on Spey, will close for 14 days

The 2 Sisters chicken processing factory in Coupar Angus re-opened on Monday August 31 after a fortnight-long Covid-19-related closure.

The relationship between NFU Scotland and the Scottish Conservative Party has plunged to a new low this week, following a very public spat between recently-elected party leader Douglas Ross MP and the union’s head of policy.

Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing believes his repeated calls for a sheep compensation scheme to mitigate the impact of Brexit have been heeded and has welcomed UK Government confirmation that work on such a sch

So it is now official, the UK is in recession as a result of two consecutive quarters of negative growth.