JOHN SLEIGH

The Buffalo Farm’s successor secures key assets, but HMRC and unsecured creditors are unlikely to receive any payment.

Rising machinery costs, locked-in software and repair control are squeezing farm margins, leaving producers price-takers when buying and selling.

Scottish farmers are being put on notice as animal welfare shifts towards evidence from farms, vets, abattoirs and digital data systems nationwide.

Farm welfare, slaughter, sentience and feral animals top the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission’s agenda as it reviews law and science in 2026.

Scottish produce firm left counting the cost after a trusted manager invented workers and diverted £550,000 in wages over three years in Scotland.

Tributes paid as long-serving NFU Scotland regional manager Ian Wilson departs, marking over 30 years supporting farmers across the Highlands.

Deadweight cattle prices are under pressure as beef demand weakens, retail prices bite and imports shift, despite tight UK supplies nationwide.

Good farm safety is about organisation, not slowing down. Fewer injuries, less pressure and safer family farms through planning and speaking up.

Scottish Government inspectors will attend Falklands Farm to verify the slaughter of 271 cattle after a Cattle Identification and Traceability…

Scottish Government inspectors will attend a Fife farm to verify the slaughter of 271 cattle after a Cattle Identification and Traceability…