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.

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 ...

She also said it was vital that Government listened to the concerns of these businesses that are providing jobs, housing, food, energy, tourism and leisure as well as tackling climate change. Now is ...

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, ...