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Goat Petition reaches Scottish Parliament
Week: 38 | 18th September 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsBoard gives sympathetic hearing after 13,000 signatures The Wild Goat Conservation Trust has thanked its many supporters after…
Westerkirk Horticultural Society: A fine affair!
Week: 37 | 11th September 2025 | Arts and Entertainment Farming and Environment NewsIn this chaotic world, full of nonsense, a day at the Benty Show is like a breath of…
Our caprine friends are notoriously hard to count
Week: 37 | 11th September 2025 | Farming and Environment Lifestyle Newcastleton NewsThere could be as many as 900 goats roaming the local moorland There has been a great deal…
Holm Show 2025
Week: 36 | 4th September 2025 | Canonbie Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsCopshaw’s big day expertly captured by the Camera Club Words By Gilly Fraser Photos by Barry Jarvis &…
Certain Bluetongue controls to be relaxed
Week: 35 | 28th August 2025 | Farming and Environment NewsThe Scottish Government has announced it’s to relax certain controls on livestock susceptible to bluetongue moving from the…
Kelso Ram Sales looking healthy despite virus
Week: 34 | 21st August 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentExtra rams forward despite extra red tape due to Bluetongue Harrison & Hetherington says things are looking good…
Double the wild deer in Scotland since 1990
The number of wild deer in Scotland has doubled since…
Scottish Woodlands hear Warblaw concerns
Organisations and residents voice issues at recent Environmental Impact Meeting…
Only 58 days to prepare for the Holm Show 2025!
Holm Show schedules will be in local shops and on…
Huge message sent to Scotland’s decision-makers
Campaigners are pressing for goats to receive fully-protected status Campaigners…
Suckler cow numbers are in decline UK-wide
Soaring beef production disguises the problem Sucklers cows are crucial…
Red tape to be cut for Scottish exports
Agreement reached between UK and EU Scotland’s farming leaders have welcomed…
90% would prefer to buy Scottish meat over imports
Industry gets major thumbs up from consumers Scottish beef, lamb…
Mary-Jane’s Agricultural Adviser of the Year Award
Honouring the trailblazing women involved in farming Pioneering work in…
Goat petition reaches MPs
4,000 anti-cull signatures handed over Conservative politicians John Lamont MP…
Heilan’ Coos and Fell Ponies join the Tarras Valley family
The cows and ponies will play their part in restoring…
Scottish Woodlands plan ' voluntary' Environmental Impact Assessment for Warblaw
Scottish Woodlands, which has been developing the woodland creation design…
NFUS calls for UK to stand up for agriculture
We need to be tough in negotiations with the USA…
Confirmation received that cull has already begun
Week: 13 | 27th March 2025 | E&L Life Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsGilly Fraser delves further into the feral goat debacle Oxygen Conservation have confirmed that they have begun culling…
Below average rainfall leads to SEPA warnings
Week: 11 | 13th March 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentFarmers should take steps to ensure their summer water supply Farmers in Scotland are being told to take…
Greenhouse gasses high from drained peatlands
Week: 10 | 6th March 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentA major new initiative is underway to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands.A number of different options…
NFUS retiterates its opposition to National Park in Galloway
Week: 09 | 27th February 2025 | Farming and Environment NewsNFU Scotland has once again made clear its opposition to the creation of a new National Park in…
THEY'RE GOING TO CULL THE GOATS!
Week: 08 | 20th February 2025 | Farming and Environment Newcastleton NewsIn what will be a hugely unpopular decision, Oxygen Conservation says it must reduce the numbers Wild goats…
Virus on D&G farmtook 90 of 150 lambs
Week: 07 | 13th February 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentFarmers are urged to report Schmallenberg (SBV) cases NFU Mutual Group Secretary Michael Goldie is calling on farmers…
Concern over decline in dairy herd numbers
NFU Scotland say they’re concerned by figures just released which…
Scottish Tories to hold vote on controversial mega-pylon plans
The Scottish Conservatives will this week hold a vote at…
Farming land remains in great demand
Farmland market edged up slightly during 2024 Demand for farmland…
Hilltop Leaf responds to questions about the project
CEO Hamish Clegg brings us up to speed with the…
Holyrood rally calls for investment in agriculture
NFUS leads farmers and crofters in Edinburgh protest Hundreds of…
Would you pay £272 for a Flat White Coffee?
An innovative farmer from Mossgiel explains why Well, you might…
The human cost of ‘progress’
Gilly Fraser meets a couple whose dream of a perfectretirement…
Barony’s Dairy Nexus is a Borderlands first
The multi-million-pound Dairy Nexus project at the Barony campus will…
Kennedy bows out of NFUS with fiery speech
Hard-hitting rhetoric at President’s last conference NFU Scotland Chief Martin…
Vital issues addressed at this year’s AgriExpo
This year’s Borderway Agri Expo features two seminars focusing on…
Support schemes need to be fit for purpose
Organisation says existing help should be extended and built upon…
Milk production shock
Stranraer-based processing company drops 12 farms Ten milk producers in…
All kinds of everything at the 172nd Langholm Show
Week: 40 | 3rd October 2024 | E&L Life Farming and Environment Lifestyle NewsMAIRI TELFORD JAMMEH reports on Langholm’s Rural Highlight in an 8-Page Supplement in this week’s E&L The 172nd Langholm Show…
Lorraine is BFA awards finalist
Week: 38 | 19th September 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentWesterkirk farmer in the running for Sheep Farmer of the Year Well-known local farmer Lorraine Luescher has been…
Nearly 1,000 objections to Warblaw Woodlands
Week: 38 | 19th September 2024 | Community Farming and Environment NewsLangholm locals object to commercial forestry on their doorstep An unprecedented 959 local signatures have been obtained objecting…
A rare glimpse of summer for the good people of the Benty
Week: 37 | 12th September 2024 | Farming and EnvironmentWith the number of supporters and entries, the Benty Show is in safe hands After a summer of…
Special Day, special guests at the Holm Show
Week: 36 | 5th September 2024 | Farming and Environment NewcastletonIf you want good weather for your event – try inviting a weathergirl along. That certainly did the…
Residents encouraged to react to Warblaw plans
Week: 35 | 29th August 2024 | Community Farming and Environment NewsIf you are against the blanket of trees proposedfor our beloved hill, then make your voice heard Scottish…
Letters to the Editor
More Warblaw worries With reference to Mark Hallam’s letter of…
Fingers crossed for a fine day for the 127th Holm Show
Marquees are up, entries are made and there’s no rain…
Much opposition to plan for Warblaw woodlands
Action Group formed to challenge forestry company’s ‘blanket of trees’…
Envisioning D&G's future landscape
Ideas for the future landscape of Dumfries and Galloway were…
Murray Farmcare acquired by Harbro
Two agricultural businesses well-known in the south of Scotland have…
Missing Lynx project
Fierce opinions on whether or not to reintroduce lynx to…
Farmstrong Scotland to hold wellbeing events
Peer-to-peer support offered to farming community Mixing business and pleasure…
Kerry’s adoreable Alpaca pals
The Alpaca Experience will give the public the chance to…
Are potatoes losing their popularity?
That’s the surprising finding of a new report by researchers…
Climate Targets making farmers ‘hostages to deadlines’
‘Any on-farm efficiency measures should be rewarded’ The Scottish Government’s…
Sheep worrying remains most frequent rural crime
By Gilly Fraser A new report by researchers at Scotland’s…
