Normal trading for prime cattle across the UK begins on Monday, April 28 following the European Commission decision on Tuesday to raise the carcase age requirement for the removal of vertebral column to 30 months.
Cabinet Secretary for the Environment and Rural Affairs Richard Lochhead has welcomed the announcement that chief executives from all the leading UK supermarkets have agreed in principle to take part in Scotland's first "supermarket summit".
The Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers (SAMW) is seeking an urgent meeting with Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health in the Scottish Parliament, to express its intense anger and frustration over a number of meat inspection issues.
Paul Spencer, head of AMC, part of the Lloyds TSB banking group, reckons that Scottish farmers should challenge AMC to beat their bank's interest rates.
We're all wondering if the widely predicted and now apparently real fall in house prices will extend to land. Will the £1m valuation put by the market on the 100-acre farm that lies next to Little Ardo on the south-facing slopes of the Ythan valley prove to be a high point?
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) recorded its best ever financial performance in 2007 with turnover increasing to
£5.6m from a record £5.1m in 2006.
WHILE the Farmer was in hospital, a much-longed-for event took place. It has changed the face of Little Ardo. At long last, the barn my grandfather built in 1944 blew down. During the snow storm of early March, the wind came at last in
sufficient force and from just the right direction to whip the roof off and crack the walls irreparably.
"The darkest of the clouds over the landlord/tenant sector at the moment must be the threat of the right to buy' - that is, the right to buy being extended to other forms of lease and the fear of retrospective legislation, both of which completely alter the contract on which an original lease was drawn up."
The National Beef Association Scotland (NBA) has started a petition from Scottish Beef Farmers to the European Commission calling for a common sense approach based on sound science for the use of vaccine to protect livestock in Scotland from encroaching Blue Tongue Virus Strain 8.
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