Upland farm management, particularly, the natural soakage of uplands, boglands and heaths will play an essential role in future flood management, according to Colm…
Forestry could be five times more profitable than upland sheep farming, Confer, the Scottish organisation promoting forestry and wood, says. Confer says that Scottish…
The Department of Agriculture is unnecessarily imposing conditions on the participation of hill and commonage farmers in the new EU supported GLAS Scheme,…
Independent MEP Marian Harkin organised a series of meetings in Brussels for hill and commonage farmers with senior officials of the European Commission…
Having listened very carefully to the concerns expressed by hill-farmers and their representatives over the new GLAS scheme, the Minister for Agriculture Food…
