Letters

Letter

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

Letter to the Editor: Littering with impunity in the Scottish Borders
Sir, – If your readers wonder why fly tipping continues unabated, they should read on.

'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

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?

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

A sea eagle spotted with a lamb in its nest

Letter Get rid of this damn bird!

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

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

'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'!

Maimie Paterson

Letter Let members' ticket income be a windfall for charity

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

ARE VINTAGE tractor road runs really the best way for the farming industry to use its discounted diesel?

Letter Tractor run ruling does farmers no favours

Letter Critical mass still needed to make Scottish Agriculture plc work

Robert Macintyre

Letter Robert Macintyre – what's going on with Royal Highland Show ticketing?

Farm assurance schemes are under pressure to change

Letter Widening up the 'assurance' debate

Brian Richardson head of agriculture at Virgin Bank

Letter Remembering where our food comes from

Crude oil extraction (Pic: Genghiskhanviet/Wikimedia)

Letter The taxing question about the fuel we use

ASSURANCE scheme inspections are often an unwelcome strain on already pressured farmers

Letter QMS now seem to be working as the state police

At every farm kitchen table in Scotland, families will be discussing how they are going to survive

Letter Retailers need to wake up and 'smell the coffee'

A strong turnout for a Boxing Day meet in Fife Ref EC2612184391

Letter Take action to help repeal the Hunting Bill

Gene editing and genetic modification are essentially the same, argues Denise Walton of Peelham Farm

Letter Biodiversity must hold sway in GM argument

Animals have feelings too

Letter Important vote due on animal sentience

New hunting Bill won't save foxes!

Letter New hunting Bill won't save foxes!

Scotland's climate is ideal for growing the best of oats and so we should make the best of that, argues Gordon Rennie

Letter Time for Scottish oats to be centre stage

Letter To All Ukrainian Farmers

Mangersta Village

Letter Show crofters the voting roll before this election takes place

Quality Meat Scotland

Letter Time for a vote on levy funded organisations?

SOME CROFTERS are not happy with the administration of their sector

This overlapping croft census is a joke

Cheap food has been the cornerstone for the modern capitalist system. From that, everything else flows.

Letter Little wonder mental health is a farming issue

Trees and livestock ... is this the way to go in preference to blanket woodlands?

Letter Biodiversity suffers under blanket forests – especially sitka spruce plantations

STORM ARWEN had a huge impact on Scottish woodlands

Letter Open letter to Mairi Gougeon: Action needed for the fallen trees of Storm Arwen

Green Tractor Scheme

Letter Green Tractor Scheme unhappy that HMRC is loading another tax onto farmers

Letter Let's stick to the facts about bio-stimulants

SOIL HEALTH is vital for food production

Letter Soil health must be a key priority

Michael Clarke of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

Nature Friendly Farming Network facing up to climate change

The Scottish livestock industry is in a position to make a significant contribution in helping Scotland meet its climate ambitions

Soil health can save the Scottish livestock sector

A big slurry pit - but not everyone has one

Smaller beef farmers can't adhere to new slurry regs

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon receives her booster jab of the coronavirus vaccine in Glasgow

Letter Covid-19 and Me: Feeling better in Benbecula

Quality Meat Scotland

Letter Time to change the current dynamics of assurance schemes

Letter The power of permanent grassland in sequestering carbon

Quality beef but where's the Scotch premium these days?

Letter Time for QMS to deliver the 'Scotch' premium again

Letter Making it easy for imports!

Action to tackle climate change shouldn't threaten the future of livestock farming

Letter No quick fix to climate change

SURELY it makes more carbon sense to source our sheepmeat from closer to home than New Zealand?

Letter Proper accounting for food miles

Fear that knock on the door...

Letter Farmers are all trapped and intimidated by assurance organisations and inspectors

Beef from grass

Letter Eat meat, grow grass ... and save the planet

John Thorley: Great strides for animal welfare in transit

READER'S LETTER Farmers should stop begging for subsidies and join the campaign for radical reform of the tax system

CONTROLLED muirburn benefits nature, according to Scottish Land and Estates (Pic: Steve Rennie)

READER'S LETTER RSPB 'misleading' public over muirburn

OPA is a very unpleasant and invariably fatal disease of sheep

Letter OPA scanning justified on many levels

Letter Time to evaluate the use of nitrogen in farming