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ScotSheep: Next Generation Shepherds
Week: 14 | 2nd April 2026 | Farming and EnvironmentCash prizes are up for grabs for Scotland’s superstar shepherds of the future at this year’s NSA Scotsheep…
Warblaw and the Natural Environment March 2026
Week: 11 | 12th March 2026 | Farming and EnvironmentSave Warblaw Action Group updates us on the current situation Scottish Forestry has informed Save Warblaw Action Group…
"It was like living in hell"
Week: 10 | 5th March 2026 | Farming and Environment NewsMairi Telford Jammeh revisits dark times of the Foot & Mouth epidemic 25 years ago rumours of a…
Big Farmland Bird Count 2026
Week: 09 | 26th February 2026 | Farming and Environment NewsIf you intended to take part in this year’s Big Farmland Bird Count but just didn’t manage to…
Farming and forestry’s prospects in the Southern Uplands in 2026
Week: 08 | 19th February 2026 | Farming and Environment NewsThis month, we introduce a guest columnist who has spent many years as a journalist before retiring to…
Blackburn and Hartsgarth:
Week: 07 | 12th February 2026 | Community Farming and EnvironmentGilly Fraser finds out what 2026 has in storefor Oxygen Conservation’s Liddesdale Estate 2026 could see work begin…
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, 'Tarras' beastie
The hunt is on for one of Britain’s smallest creatures…
Relief as UK Government performs another U-turn
Leaders meet to discuss changed Inheritance Tax Relief The UK…
Biggest wildlife petition presented to Scottish Parliament
22,000 signature document is with Scotland’s decision-makers The petition going…
Wind farm worries for distinctive goats
Oxygen Conservation’s plans at odds with Trust Conservationists have hit…
SWAG concerned report will favour developers
Action Group gives us an update on the state of…
Oxygen Conservation have wind farm ideas.
Letters have been sent to all Copshaw households informing them…
Turnip growers seek to revive the lowly neep
“Neeps Rising: Scotland’s rooted revolution!” It used to be the…
St Kilda’s sheep ‘protected’; Langholm Moor goats ‘feral’
Scottish Government accused of “muddled thinking” The Scottish Government has…
Fire strategy urgently needed
Scotland needs a country-wide Integrated Fire Management Strategy to protect…
Balance of nature cited as need for goat cull announced
Goat population of 800-900 has reached a concerning level The…
SRUC’s £21m project has a new Director
Pauline has supported innovative projects from concept to delivery The…
Goat Petition reaches Scottish Parliament
Board gives sympathetic hearing after 13,000 signatures The Wild Goat…
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
Week: 31 | 31st July 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentThe number of wild deer in Scotland has doubled since 1990 and now stands at around one million.…
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
Gilly Fraser delves further into the feral goat debacle Oxygen…
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
Week: 06 | 6th February 2025 | Farming and EnvironmentNFU Scotland say they’re concerned by figures just released which show a decline in Scottish dairy herd numbers.The…
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…
All kinds of everything at the 172nd Langholm Show
MAIRI TELFORD JAMMEH reports on Langholm’s Rural Highlight in an 8-Page Supplement…
