Tag: Farmers

Farmers forced to sell cows as milk prices fall

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - November 10, 2015

STRUGGLING farmers have been forced to sell their cows as milk prices fall. Farmers in Kintyre, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute, have said...

Scots scientists give potato advice to sub-Saharan Africa

In Brief

Deadline News Journalist - September 20, 2015

SCOTS scientists are lending a helping hand to sub-Saharan Africans - by providing them with potato advice. Specialists at the James Hutton Institute for agricultural...

Scots farmers face pesticide crackdown after birds of prey killed by rat poison

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - April 28, 2013

SCOTTISH farmers are facing a crackdown on pesticides after it emerged birds of prey are being killed by rat poison. Scientists from government agency...

Farmers feeling the pinch as supermarkets sell milk for as little as 22p a pint

Scottish News

Christine Lavelle - March 13, 2011

SCOTLAND’S dairy farmers say they are struggling to cope as supermarkets sell milk for less than the price of bottled water. Cut-price stores like Aldi...

Police flout data protection laws by selling driver info

Deadline News Journalist - August 8, 2010

By Martin Graham STRATHCLYDE Police are flouting data protection laws by charging £60 to reveal details of drivers involved in collisions. Police have traditionally refused to...