Scotland

INCREASED land values were raising barriers to new entrants to farming as natural capital and afforestation interest drive Scottish farmland markets according to a new report by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

Alyth and District Agricultural Show has been cancelled this summer due to the financial pressures of the Covid-19 years. 

A fresh row over farming powers is brewing between Westminster and Holyrood after the UK Government moved to approve gene editing.

Scotland’s Chief Veterinary Officer Sheila Voas has written to all pig keepers imploring them to take every step to keep African Swine Fever out of the country

Seed potatoes from Great Britain (GB) will be able to be sold in Northern Ireland (NI) once more under the terms of new legislation from Westminster.

After a two-year break, funding has been made available for a new round of monitor farms in Scotland.

Scottish Government funding has breathed new life into the rural training sector, helping upskill instructors and bring in new recruits.

Tougher bovine tuberculosis (bTB) controls including diagnostic testing, cattle movements and isolation requirements have been proposed by the Scottish Government in a new consultation.

The issue of future funding must be addressed if Scotland’s farming industry is to survive, leaders of NFU Scotland told the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice this week.

NFU Scotland has welcomed a new regional manager for Dumfries and Galloway.