AN unprecedented data-gathering exercise seeking the views of owners and operators of Scotland’s 18,000 crofts has been launched to establish the state of the industry. Did you know with a Digital ...
This exceptional crofting property with a modernised farmhouse, holiday let and 112 acres is now for sale.
While generally in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in the article from your contributor, Iain Macaskill Smith (The Herald, July 10), I really must take issue with him when he states: "Crofting ...
Ten years since the Brexit referendum, Scottish farming faces familiar challenges and new opportunities ...
The Shucksmith Committee of Inquiry into the future of crofting attempts to reconcile modern democracy with a nineteenth-century system of land tenure. For more than 100 years, crofting has been ...
The new chief executive of the Crofting Commission says the statutory body wants to help make it easier for people to work in the sector. Crofting is a system of land tenure and farming unique to ...
Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. Share: Crofting can be a conundrum. It was a modern improvement to ...
The crofting system seemed a perfect marriage; the landowners who replaced the Clan Chiefs could no longer ask their tenants to raise arms, or provide other services for them, but they could make ...
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MSPs at Holyrood have approved in principle the first reform of crofting in 30 years, by 96 votes to 17. The legislation will create the first new crofts for more than a century and allow the unique ...
The Crofting Reform Bill will see new rules preventing absenteeism and neglect, with the aim of creating thriving communities. Scottish ministers say there are almost 2,000 absentee crofters and an ...
Colin Kennedy, whose actions at the Crofting Commission were the source of a row, has been unsuccessful in being re-elected after losing by two votes. Last year, the commission's board apologised for ...