Apr. 03 2023
Source Page: Wildlife management: consultation analysisFound: unmonitored medicated grit stations may be spread throughout the uplands.
Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) There are 15 million acres of hill land, which again present a very difficult problem. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) The SFI has tailored options for the uplands, including the moorland standard, and this goes alongside - Speech Link
3: None If we want farming and food production to be resilient and sustainable over the long term, farming and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) We want Scotland to be a leader in sustainable and regenerative farming. - Speech Link
2: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) The route map provides Scotland’s farming and food production industry with clarity and confidence on - Speech Link
3: Gougeon, Mairi (SNP - Angus North and Mearns) That is unacceptable and far from the sunlit uplands that the Brexiteers promised. - Speech Link
4: Mundell, Oliver (Con - Dumfriesshire) The cabinet secretary should start by speaking to hill farmers in my constituency, who are under huge - Speech Link
5: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) farming”, perhaps we should say that it is old-fashioned farming. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None From the point of view of the types of habitat restoration that we need in the uplands for climate and - Speech Link
2: None Even in the lowlands—never mind the uplands—we have seen a marked increase in the number of deer. - Speech Link
3: None That is what I see on a number of grouse moors and other well-managed hill farms, especially for waders - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I press him on how this will impact on hill farmers, upland farmers and small farmers everywhere, in - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) with Julia Aglionby; her input in trying to make our schemes fit graziers who have access to areas of uplands - Speech Link
3: None We are keen for everyone to understand that we want to see the uplands continue to be farmed to produce - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) hill farmers, many of whom are tenanted farmers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) farming communities. - Speech Link
Mar. 09 2023
Source Page: Payments made under EU Common Agricultural Policy: EIR releaseFound: CATRINE)18658.190000000002Mr D N McKerrow1213.54E Fergusson & Sons117037.82A HODGE & SON48814.53Gong Hill
Oral Evidence Mar. 08 2023
Inquiry: Protected AreasFound: Department of Biology, University of York, The University of Exeter, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust,
Mentions:
1: None That is why we absolutely need to transform our farming policy and our farming and food systems to deliver - Speech Link
2: None and testing for sustainable farming. - Speech Link
3: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) the whole thing of how we maintain the carbon in all soils, not just in the hill soil? - Speech Link
4: None If the effect is to reduce the numbers on the uplands, that in turn will have an effect not only on the - Speech Link
5: None I make it clear that I am not arguing against money going into those hill and upland areas. - Speech Link
Mar. 06 2023
Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: March 2017Found: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: March 2017