By Scottish Greens rural spokesperson, Mark Ruskell MSP THE UPCOMING Holyrood elections are taking place in unprecedented times, with the devastating impacts of Covid and Brexit underpinning the Parliament’s work for many years to come. It’s vital that we act quickly to ensure Scotland’s farming sector not only survives but uses this opportunity to build back better, greener, and stronger. The threat of future UK trade deals with the rest of the world remain real, undercutting standards and flooding the UK with cheap food imports. Green MSPs will fight to maintain food safety, animal welfare, and environmental standards, ensuring Scottish food does not become a bargaining chip in the same way our fishing sector has.
by Bob McIntosh
New guides for fixed equipment and compliance are being developed for the tenant farming sector.
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One of my key roles as Tenant Farming Commissioner (TFC) is to look out for common issues that might cause tension or misunderstandings between tenants and landlords.
I’m always thinking about similarities in the concerns that tenants and landlords discuss with me, and whether there is something I could put in place to help others in the same situation.
Gemma Cooper CHANGES that will help tenants retire or leave their tenancy, and provide new opportunities for next generation farmers, have been welcomed by NFU Scotland. Provisions relating to the relinquishment and assignation of secure 1991 Act tenancies came into force on February 28. These are the latest elements from the Land Reform Act passed in 2016 to go live and follows significant work by stakeholders alongside the Scottish Government. The provisions will provide tenant farmers who wish to retire and have no successor with an additional option to offer their tenancy back to the landlord at a price determined by means of a formula set out in the legislation. If the landlord does not take up this offer, the tenancy will then go onto the market for a new entrant or progressing farmer.