Opinion

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WHATEVER farmers have to pay for fuel this coming harvest is going to have a real impact on the price of food

The Scottish Farmer speaks: Farming can be the solution to food inflation
FOOD INFLATION hit the headlines this week and it behoves us not to feel a certain smugness that this had been predicted by this column some months ago. But in the here and now, politicians have suddenly woken up (as apart to just being ‘woke’!) to the fact that this inflation cannot be solved by the simple fix of importing cheaper goods, foods and bum wipes from abroad. It is going to take a lot more than that to wipe the slate clean.

Jim Brown Ref:RH0111170305

Opinion Jim Brown's Farmers View: Food production all set to take centre stage

As Brexiteers are fond of saying... its happened, better get used to it

Euro Notebook London's response to the food crisis lags behind Brussels – so whither the Brexit bonus?

John Elliot Ref:RH131217050

Opinion John Elliot's Farmer's View: Moving ahead to create everlasting memories

Tractor in a minefield

Opinion War has reminded the EU why it has a Common Agricultural Policy

ARE THE Police trying hard enough to catch and punish flytippers?

Letter Letter to the Editor: Littering with impunity in the Scottish Borders

The Royal Highland Show celebrating 200 years

Opinion Royal Highland 200 – a shining beacon for all agriculture in Scotland

'RODEO' entertainments with live animals are still permitted in New Zealand (Pic: Anti-Rodeo Action NZ)

Letter Letter to the Editor: Rodeos show the 'other side' of NZ animal welfare

Meat Standards Australia was developed by the Australian red meat industry to improve the eating quality consistency of beef and sheepmeat

Letter Letter to the Editor: Aussie meat eating standards are from paddock to plate

Opinion The carbon issue and how to solve it

NFUS president Martin Kennedy has launched a stout defence of agriculture having proven that farmers are listening and doing something about climate change, while other industries seem to be able to buy a tree and get themselves off the hook!

Opinion Farming, wildlife and climate change battle it out for news space

Kathleen O'Donnell of Fragomen

Opinion Which is the best hiring option for fruit and vegetable farms?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Pic: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard/PA Wire)

Opinion Desperate for friends, might Johnson rediscover his rural MPs?

SOME of Scotland's birds are having more breeding success than others

Letter Letter to the Editor: RIP Scotland's 'lesser' birds – you are on the slippery slope

Letter Letter to the Editor: Determining global food supplies, by Denise Walton

Letter Are we making rural theme parks with no consideration for those who live there?

Farm View Jim Walker's Farm View: Time to deliver on the eating quality of Scotch meat

Comparison with New Zealand welfare standards is a warning shot to the industry

Opinion Defending our markets from cheap foreign imports

Richard Wright's Euro Notebook: An imperial rise through political fall-out?

Euro Notebook Richard Wright's Euro Notebook: An imperial rise through political fall-out?

James Porter - wondering why supermarkets put more effort into promoting junk food than healthy fruit and veg Ref:RH19617394

Opinion Delaying the junk food clampdown is shortsighted

WESTMINSTER'S vision of a 'green' countryside pushes food production to the sidelines

Opinion London must end its denigration of farmers and food production

ALL OVER rural Scotland, old bridges are reaching the end of their working lives - and there doesn't seem to be a plan to put that right

Opinion Infrastructure is everything

Opinion We really need a severe dose of realism

Prime minister Boris Johnson loves emulating his hero, Winston Churchill, who in reality would be appalled by the present government, not least in distancing itself from Europe

Opinion We are witnessing the end of the cheap food era

Who misses the old MacRobert Pavilion? What is this shiny new thing in its place?

Opinion Not all change is bad – and this is still our one and only Highland Show

Doug Niven Ref:RH300119128 Rob Haining / The Scottish Farmer

Opinion Doug Niven: Global grain and oilseed markets tighten due to war and weather

John Scott of Fearn Farm:

Opinion We can’t rely on others to tell our farming story

Ruaridh Ormiston: 'There is going to be a 'bonanza in carbon credit payments' for land ownership/management, whether it is from peatland, or forest, or whatever' (Pic: Lorne Gill/NatureScot)

Letter Letter to the Editor: Carbon offsetting cash should benefit communities

Jim Brown (Pic ref:RH0111170305)

Opinion Jim Brown celebrates a few anniversaries in his Farmer's View column

A sea eagle spotted with a lamb in its nest

Letter Get rid of this damn bird!

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales during the State Opening of Parliament, where he delivered the Queen's Speech outlining the government's plans for the coming parliamentary year (Pic: Ben Stansall - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Opinion Westminster clings on to its undeliverable greening policies

Gene editing relies on highlighting or suppressing genes that already exist within an organism's own genome - it does not, as with genetic modification, draw on genes from other species

Opinion Our future lies in the genes

Roy Hiddleston, founder and managing director of Solway Recycling Ref:RH270420995 Rob Haining / The Scottish Farmer

Letter Letter: Clarity needed on voluntary £50 per tonne silage plastic levy

John Elliot (Pic: Rob Haining)

Opinion John Elliot's Farmer's View: Making sheep faulds that allow you to go with the flow

Alasdair Macnab Ref:EC210519625

Opinion Learn the new language of change– and take our future into our own hands

Over trade alone, farmers – many of whom, particularly in England, supported Brexit – have not done well

Opinion Richard Wright's Euro Notebook: When no deal is better than any deal?

RHET Forth Valley raised £3000 to conribute to practical education of agriculture for schools across the district

Opinion RHET Forth Valley raises £3000 to contribute to education within schools

Love them or loathe them, carbon audits will be a necessary evil if we are to defend food production against anti-farming sentiment

Opinion The Scottish Farmer speaks: Getting Scotland's new agri-policy rules right

Lucy Mitchell is the new National chair of SAYFC Ref: Paul Watt

Opinion SAYFC is back with a bang

Board of Trustees (L-R): Katie Burns, Hamish Logan, Peter Duthie, Sarah Mowat, Jennifer Jones, Jane Strawhorn, Lucy Mitchell, Amy Jo Reid, Annabel Brown, Bill Arnot and Alex Allison Ref: Paul Watt

Young Farmers New SAYFC National chair Lucy Mitchell of West Fife JAC looks to the future

Neil Wilson, executive director of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland (IAAS)

Opinion Take power back to the farm gate and away from the supermarkets – sell through the live ring

Pat Wilson Ref:EC11419446

Opinion Pat Wilson: Even at 40ppl dairying's not at 'break-even'

RECIPIENTS of farm support should be active in wellies, not idle in slippers

Opinion The Scottish Farmer speaks: Why do we have 'slipper farmers' in our support system

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as the person who led Brexit, needs to acknowledge that just because a policy is forged in the EU does not make it necessarily bad (Pic: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Opinion French farm policy is focussed on food security – Brexit Britain can only look on with envy

Petroleum (Pic: Nefronus)

Letter Letter to the Editor: Converting oil into food is not the way ahead for farming

The Border Vintage Agricultural Association runs a number of events across the rural calendar

Letter Vintage tractor enthusiasts have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity

Fertiliser prices are up by a whopping 370%

Opinion Structural imbalance in the fertiliser market needs tackled

'Many people fear spiders, but learn to live with them and fear of a well run nuclear program fits the same bill' : Sandy Henderson

Letter A non-nuclear power option is 'bananas'!

Jim Walker Ref:RH250118034

Opinion Time for QMS levy payers to have their say?

Maimie Paterson

Letter Let members' ticket income be a windfall for charity

IS THERE a happier sight than livestock getting back out onto pasture in the spring?

Opinion A joy to be out – but be careful

Opinion GB Potatoes will be focussed on the job

No other day like it! But what was wrong with how it was ticketed before?

Letter If the Highland turns away folk who didn't pre-book, they'll never be back

Claire Simonetta

Opinion Why 'tick box' greening won't work