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Funding for cross compliance support
Scotland has 2 million hectares of peatlands which, if well-preserved, can store carbon, provide unique habitats and mitigate climate change by regulating water flow and reducing the risk of flooding.…
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Get Funding to Boost your Farming Business’s Resilience and Safeguard your Wellbeing
Working in agriculture can be immensely fulfilling, yet it often comes with significant physical and emotional challenges. During periods of personal, professional, or political change, uncertainty about the long-term resilience…
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Funding to Support Spring Biodiversity on your Farm
Ground-nesting birds have begun their breeding season across woodlands, moorlands, grasslands and wetlands. These habitats are invaluable for biodiversity and can provide benefits to farmers and crofters who preserve them.…
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Crofting Agricultural Grant Scheme (CAGS) – Update
Good news for crofters! The CAGS scheme, which helps support and improve crofting businesses, is getting an upgrade to make it easier and quicker to apply for funding. To make…
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Funding Support for Organic Farming
In recent years, the Scottish Government has made a series of high-level political commitments to organic farming, including doubling the amount of organic agricultural land in Scotland by 2026. If…
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Farming in water scarcity
Historically Scotland has experienced wetter autumns and winters followed by drier spring and summers. However, we are observing changes in weather patterns year on year, with more singular extreme weather…
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Get funded guidance on farm woodland creation and maintenance
Traditionally, farm woodlands were planted for shelter, timber production, amenity, game cover, or a combination of these. More recently, wildlife conservation and biosecurity have become important objectives, and there has…
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Funding to keep your croft thriving
Funding to keep your croft thriving At the end of last year, The Crofting Commission announced a new initiative to address the issue of vacant crofts across Scotland. Recognising…
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Get funding to achieve high nutrient use efficiency
You may have heard that the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan Update sets a commitment to develop “a SMART [Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timebound] target for reducing Scotland’s emissions…
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FAS Mentoring Support Available
Access the highly rated government-funded mentoring programme If you have set up or become the head of a farming or crofting business in the last five years, you could benefit…
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