The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, has announced his intention to extend the cut-off point ...
The Scottish Conservatives yesterday, 1st June 2016, challenged the SNP to guarantee that taxpayers will not face a bill of up to ...
Figures provided by NFU Scotland have shown that almost a third of Scotland’s farmers and crofters were still , last week, ...
Scottish farmers made a strong protest at Holyrood today, 10th March – and it was good to see them spot the difference between a ...
The SNP Scottish Government which, in every possible way, has made one almighty cock-up of EU farm payments to farmers and crofters ...
A new Member of the Scottish Land Court, put forward by Scottish Ministers, has been formally appointed by Her Majesty the ...
In what is a very real loss to the Scottish Parliament, Highlands and Islands Conservative MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has announced today, ...
Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll and Bute, has welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement that more support will be available ...
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP, has today, 7th April 2015, responded to the new Scottish Natural Heritage ...
10,000 payments from the Scottish Government’s £65.5 million Less Favoured Area Support Scheme ...
Conservationists, farmers and land managers have joined forces to discuss a range of management issues ...
Dave Thompson, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch used a recent meeting of The Rural Affairs, ...
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP, is today urging all farmers and crofters in his region immediately to check the accuracy ...
Farmers and crofters across Argyll and Bute will have the opportunity to find out more about the new EU Common ...
The Scottish Government is holding a series of roadshows across Scotland to clarify the details of ...
A new joint statement of intent on balancing the needs of sheep farmers and crofters with the conservation of sea eagles ...
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) confirmed yesterday, 10th February, that a pilot sale of wild greylag goose at ...
Highlands & Islands Conservative MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has repeated his call for farmers and crofters in his region ...
2013 counts of corncrake number revealed a drop in population of almost a quarter. ...
Confusion continues over precisely what the Scottish Government has and has not done ...
As RSPB Scotland’s Volunteer & Farmer Alliance project celebrates its 10th anniversary, ...
The Scottish Government conducted and extended the Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) scheme, ...
There’s been much tooing and froing on this one – ...
The Bull Hire Review Group, led by Sarah Allen, was established ...
The Tiree Access Forum has received support from Len Scoullar, ...
Alyn Smith, one of Scotland’s 6 MEPs , has won a breakthrough crucial to farmers. ...
Faced with ‘confused alarms of struggle and flight’, ...
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) recognises the continuing demand for the support of its sea eagle management scheme for crofters and ...
The Scottish Government this afternoon announced the setting up of a Review Group to examine the specific future of the Bull Hire ...
Highland MSP, Jamie McGrigor is progressively gaining ground in his efforts to ensure some form of effective continuation of ...
Argyll man, Highlands MSP Jamie McGrigor has called for the retention of the Bill Hire scheme and, as For Argyll recently reported, ...
Highlands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has from the outset led the objections to the proposed removal of the traditional bull hire scheme ...
While it’s not yet critical, the numbers of Cormcrakes on Argyll and other west coast islands has fallen this year by 7%. ...
The White-tailed sea eagle has been successfully re-introduced into Scotland after being driven to extinction by illegal killing in ...