Concerns over the availability of seasonal agricultural labour are being voiced worldwide.

Aiming to improve regular machinery maintenance checks, while enhancing health and safety, one Aberdeenshire farm manager has come up with a new phone-based system.

Scotland’s finance secretary Kate Forbes has announced a further £220m of grants for businesses, including the recently self-employed, to help them deal with the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Amidst all the show cancellations there is glimmer of hope of a return to normality as directors of AgriScot plan for the event to carry on as scheduled on Wednesday November 18.   

With many farmers missing the regular trip to the hairdressers due to Covid-19 lockdown, a new scheme has been devised to solve the problem and raise money for charity at the same time.

The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) has issued the equivalent of a company profit warning pointing to a likely £6.3m loss of income this year.

The directors of Grampian Growers, Scotland’s leading producer of daffodil blooms have made the unilateral decision to stop picking even though it means around £1 million worth of flowers will be left to wither in the fields.

A GP and chairman of NFU Scotland’s Stewartry Branch has advised farmers to take Covid-19 infection control seriously and to think of it as being like foot- and- mouth, but affecting humans.

Farmers could benefit from the Government’s coronavirus Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) but they need to study the small print first.

As farms across Scotland begin the spring work in earnest everyone is having to use common sense in their working practices to minimise the risk of contracting Covid-19 or spreading the disease.