Livestock or livestock products that end up in the food chain and which may be exported to the EU will require proof of an annual vet visit.
The future of lifeline support to Scotland’s hills and uplands was top of the agenda when the Cabinet Secretary met with NFU Scotland.
A facility capable of producing up to 19 million trees a year for planting, will soon be built at a nursery near Elgin.
Wintry showers will continue across northern Scotland for the rest of Monday and into Tuesday morning gradually becoming confined to coastal areas.
Occasional wintry showers will affect eastern Scotland this evening and through Monday morning.
Snow will begin to accumulate overnight on Tuesday especially away from windward coasts, with 1-3cm possible.
Combine harvesters were the farm vehicles hardest hit by harvest fires, with the number of fires doubling on the previous year.
Periods of heavy rain associated with Storm Ciarán will affect the north-east during Thursday and early Friday.
A yellow warning for heavy rain has been extended from midnight on Friday through to 6am on Sunday morning.
Reports have been made of some vessels, paddle boarders and kayakers getting close to these animals and potentially causing a disturbance to them.
A revised pay offer made to school staff just a fortnight before the next walkout has been rejected, leading to action in Aberdeenshire and Moray.
A Holyrood committee wants to hear from workers in the north-east and Moray in the oil and gas industry ahead of its inquiry into a Just Transition.
A six-month trial that will introduce cheaper and simpler fares on ScotRail services will get underway from Monday, October 2.
UNISON, Scotland’s largest local government union says members will take part in the action over three days from Tuesday September 26 to Thursday 28.
Train passengers travelling between Inverness and Aberdeen face disruption after a tree blocked the line near Huntly.
Scale model builders from across Scotland including Kinloss and Forres Model Club members travelled to Inverurie for the annual exhibition.
In the fourth part of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell travels around the north-east and Moray in 1773, Dr Johnson heads to Macbeth territory.
The public is being asked for views on alkaline hydrolysis (water cremations), burials, funeral director licensing and funeral sector inspections.
The Met Office has issues a yellow warning for heavy showers and thunderstorms which may lead to some flooding and travel disruption.
Researchers based at The James Hutton Institute are supporting a £6 million project to develop an effective vaccine for on-farm worm control.
