A report into Scottish farm business income shows profits on an average lowland cattle and sheep farm fell sharply in 2023/24 to just £2,600. By comparison the average in 2012/13 was £35,000.

Councillors have voted to object to a 110MW battery and solar energy park on 105 hectares of prime agricultural land ...

NFU Scotland has launched a forceful critique of the Scottish government ’s Land Reform Bill, warning it could damage rural livelihoods and overwhelm farms and crofts with excessive bureaucracy. As ...

The Agriculture Minister Jim Fairlie and I took the opportunity to meet with many of you and answer questions about the newly announced £14 million Future Farming Investment Scheme (FFIS). The scheme ...

The huge multinational London-headquartered company that owns such brands as Guinness and Johnnie Walker wants to install a 4 megawatt, 12,000-panel solar farm on vacant land, entirely within the ...

Hence the strategy Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) wants to use: plant saplings, not seeds, and crank those saplings out faster than nature could. In the wild, wrote Severin Carrell in The Guardian, ...