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The opening up of the US market to imports of British lamb has been welcomed but it remains to be seen what the impact on Scotch lamb will be.

Sea eagle predation along Scotland’s western seaboard is becoming a rapidly increasing threat to hill farming as lamb losses mount.

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), AHDB and Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) have collaborated on a new ’myth-busting’ toolkit to empower farmers to kick-start positive conversations around red meat.

Collection of produce from farms has slowed up, as has delivery of vital inputs such as seed and animal feeds.

The future of pig processing in Scotland looks decidedly bleak with Pilgrim’s UK, operator of the country’s only dedicated pig abattoir declaring its operation as being ’unsustainable’.

But the union leaders’ top priority was lobbying MPs and ministers over the labour crisis

Scotland’s 2021 harvest campaign has to date been one of the easier and earlier ones.

The Pig Producers Hardship Support Scheme will provide support to farmers impacted by the Covid-related closure of Brechin abattoir

It was thought the project could transform crop production in Kenya and Malawi

Unless a new agreement can be negotiated between the EU and the UK, the trade in seed potatoes either way across the English Channel can be considered to have ceased.