The Scottish Greens would shift payments so those who produce food in "nature-friendly ways" receive the greater share of ...

The Scottish government says new legislation passed at Holyrood will modernise and simplify crofting, a traditional system of small-scale farming. About 30,000 people live in crofting households ...

AN unprecedented data-gathering exercise seeking the views of owners and operators of Scotland’s 18,000 crofts has been launched to establish the state of the industry. Did you know with a Digital ...

Scotland’s upcoming election has thrust agricultural policy into focus, with parties outlining divergent plans for farm subsidies, food pricing, and rural livelihoods. Farmers face post-Brexit funding ...

The Shucksmith Committee of Inquiry into the future of crofting attempts to reconcile modern democracy with a nineteenth-century system of land tenure. For more than 100 years, crofting has been ...

While generally in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in the article from your contributor, Iain Macaskill Smith (The Herald, July 10), I really must take issue with him when he states: "Crofting ...

Each week, the self-righteous and highly judgmental journalist Rab McNeil puts one of the country's weel-kent creations, ...

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MSPs at Holyrood have approved in principle the first reform of crofting in 30 years, by 96 votes to 17. The legislation will create the first new crofts for more than a century and allow the unique ...