Scottish Agriculture

Farmers had hoped to hear further details at last week's NFU Scotland's conference

Farmers' Union of Wales said the Welsh Government's proposed SFS would bring direct farm payments to an end completely, while introducing a 'mountain of costly restrictions and requirements'

Online applications for the scheme will be closed from 5pm tomorrow (December 21) until January 4 2024, in order to carry out essential maintenance

In a letter sent to the First Minister, NFUS president Martin Kennedy highlighted a series of 'hollow promises', received from both the previous and current deputy first ministers, that withdrawn money for agriculture would rightly be returned to the sector

The Competition and Markets Authority had launched an investigation in July after concerns the merger could create 'substantial lessening of competition within the market'

Scottish farmers and gamekeepers said the ban will make it much more difficult to control fox populations and the predation they carry out on other species such as ground-nesting birds

Migration Minister Emma Roddick said 'live in' visas could help people from around the world to settle in Scottish rural and island communities

Matt Waldie is spearheading a new kind of farm collaboration that is helping to drive his family farm forwards. Farmers Guardian finds out more.

Calls for the cattle sector to adopt electric tagging has been two decades in the making in Scotland

An extension to the short-term lets licence which has been described as ‘vital' for rural Scotland is to be debated in the Scottish Assembly