FEARS THAT Defra is using CAP reform to pursue its cost-cutting agenda have proven well-founded, with this week's revelation of a UK-led deal to boost 'modulation' – the diversion of farm support cash into the rural development budget.
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER 'Sandy' Trees, chairman of the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, has been appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party-political peer.
SCOTLAND HAS tens of thousands of hectares of land that could profitably carry forestry – but which are instead doing nothing, trapped in an unproductive limbo by sheep sector scare stories and an impossibly convoluted grant system.
With a cast of 16, Campbeltown Young Farmers Club – which re-launched in 2007 – put on their first concert in 14 years, titled 'A One Night Stand', at the Victoria Hall last weekend.
Ian Waugh's life had been filled to the brim or, as was said in his eulogy: "If enthusiasm is the engine of life, then Ian had some engine and some life."
ONE OF the world's greatest Holstein breeders, showmen and merchandisers, R Peter Heffering, of Hanover Hill Holsteins, Port Perry, Ontario, has died in Florida at 80 years of age.
RALPH CADZOW, one of the three brothers who produced Britain's first new breed of cattle in more than a century – the Luing breed was officially ratified by Parliament in 1965 – has died at the age of 89.
