The Scottish Farmer - 2024-02-03

• Livestock stranded
• EU to UK border checks cost £200m
• Should Scottish farmers protest?
• No protest call from Union
• AHDB complains to BBC over Chris Packham
• Meat and dairy are essential
• More space for chickens
• Calls for a return of all £46m of agri funding
• Veteran SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson hits out at controvers­ial Green Party policies
• First Minister to address NFUS AGM
• Bovine TB infection PCR testing to expand
• Beef with Canada pauses trade talks
• NFUS say no to new national park
• Is necessity really the mother of all invention?
• Lobbying rethink if First Minister doesn’t deliver
• Farm protests and anger against Brussels spreads
• Let us get on with the job
• Rural workers do not want any more national parks
• Double success for James and Link
• LEADING awards
• John Copland – a true unsung hero
• Baltier leads Scottish Holstein herds
• Kerricks tops Jersey herds
• Big turnout for Winter Herds competitio­n
• Wheat carryover softening domestic future market
• Fighting PCN in potato fields
• US expert Jay Fuhrer to give talk at key BASE-UK event
• Grain markets hit by conflict in Red Sea
• Prime and store cattle hold firm
• Blues shine at Lanark Limelights
• Calf scour is still a huge problem
• Carry House gimmer to 5000gns at J36
• Jenna takes top graduate spot
• Co-op rewards sustainabl­e practices
• LEADING prices
• LEADING prices
• PRIME SALES
• SPECIAL SALES
• Record December meat, fish and poultry sales
• News from the Scottish Red Meat Industry
• Computer tomography (CT) scanning enhances terminal sire selection and flock performanc­e
• Highlander­s are a family favourite
• Galloways thrive on low inputs at Borthwicks­hiels
• Luing cattle tick all the right boxes for the Murrays
• Tree expert outlines benefits and challenges around agroforest­ry
• Landowners urged to ‘keep planting trees’
• Nomination­s now open for Scotland’s Finest Wood Awards
• Water, barley yields and climate change in Scotland
• Renewable energy outstrips demand in Scotland
• The carbon market is a ‘complicate­d minefield’
• Cattle – the answer to climate change
• Soil contains 97% carbon – not trees
• Look for 1.2kg/head/day minimum
• TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
• In a glen far, far away...
• Lasting legacy: Farmer throws weight behind Farmstrong Scotland in memory of his father

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