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Alba Trees says outlook positive despite 2022/23 'outlier' season - from HortWeek

TWO businesses that make up part of an industry that contributes about £1 billion to the Scottish economy each year have been visited by a…

AS WORLD leaders gather in Egypt for COP27, plans for tackling the climate crisis are again under scrutiny.

This year’s Royal Highland Show is a key showcase for sustainable food and farming, according to independent rural consultancy, Galbraith.

THIS Saturday, Woodland Trust Scotland is hosting a tree planting event in Butterdean Wood. It had a similar event in autumn last year, after…

Volunteers joined forces to plant more than 400 trees at the weekend.

Alba Trees sees high planting demand - from Horticulture Week

Letters Ruth Davidson said in a October 2018 letter that protecting the integrity of the UK was a blood red line SO the First Minister believes an independent Scotland could use the Northern Ireland protocol as a template for the Scotland-England border. The so-called Conservative & Unionist Party were warned the protocol would be used by the SNP. Whilst the Scottish LibDem MP Alistair Carmichael had said: “The Northern Ireland protocol was hastily cobbled together and badly thought out. ...

But under the Brexit agreement, trees from the EU are still allowed in. The rules – that came into force on January 1 as part of the Northern Ireland protocol – states plants cannot be imported into Northern Ireland if they have soil on their roots, or have been grown in soil. This in effect makes it impossible to export trees there. Another problem stems from a list of plants and trees the EU prohibits being imported from third countries – which now includes the UK – to limit diseases ...

Almost 100,000 tree orders bound for Northern Ireland have been cancelled as a result of trade difficulties caused by the Irish Sea border. Buyers including the Woodland Trust and Belfast City Council have faced issues with orders due to problems importing the trees from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. Under the Northern Ireland Protocol, agreed as part of the UK and EUs Brexit deal, the region remains aligned with the EU on trade rules. The Guardian has reported this causes difficulties fo...