For Argyll

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment spoke at Oxford University’s prestigious Oxford Farming Conference to an audience including Jean-Luc Demarty, the EU’s Director-General for Agriculture and Development and Westminster Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn MP. In outlining…

The issue of lamb mortality in crofting areas flown by the Sea Eagles re-introduced to Scotland has been a contentious one.

Now a meeting between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), crofters in Skye and Gairloch, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, the Scottish Government and…

Environment Minister,Michael Rusell has launched a new National Course in Crofting at Sgoil Lionacleit in Benbecula in the Western Isles. This will become another subject option i the school curriculum and is expected to set the lead in the introduction…

Jamie McGrigor, Highlands MSP, has tabled a motion at Holyrood that he hopes can be debated at the Scottish Parliament on the future of the bull hire scheme. Jamie tabled the motion on behalf of the many crofting sector representatives…

For Argyll reported recently on two cases of deliberate poisoning of raptors - at the Glenquiech and Glenogil estates in Angus - seeing one of Mull’s home-bred young sea eagles dead from deliberate poisoning at Glenquiech. These incidents hrow a…

Argyll and Bute Council are launching a public consultation tomorrow (24th October) on the Loch Fyne Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) plan. This will guide the future development and use of the loch so it’s important that the views of…

Argyll’s Isle of Bute, along with the other Clyde isles of Arran and Greater and Little Cumbrae and the county of Moray are being added to the designated list of crofting counties. This follows the publication last week of the…

The White-tailed sea eagle has been successfully re-introduced into Scotland after being driven to extinction by illegal killing in the early part of the 19th century. Argyll’s Isle of Mull has scored major breeding successes with these magnificent birds, seeing…

Argyll and Bute Council have just announced (10.00am, 30th September) the raising of the weight restriction on the inland road between Aros Bridge and Dervaig in the north west of Mull. This will be of great help to local farms…

First Minister, Alex Salmond, objects absoutely to the growing of GM crops in Scotland. Environment Minister, Michael Russell has said: ‘We are not prepared to have trials of GM crops take place and we are not interested in GM cultivation.

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