The proposed bill affects the running of 21,000 crofts across parts of northern and western Scotland.

A rare opportunity has opened up on Scotland’s Fair Isle, the UK’s most remote inhabited island perched between Orkney and ...

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 ...

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 ...

demand for crofts has never been higher, despite the crisis engulfing Scottish agriculture, the Crofters Commission said yesterday. In its annual report, the commission said that between 800 and 900 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A group consulted by government on the draft Crofting Reform Bill has called for it to be withdrawn. Glenelg and Arnisdale Community Council in Ross-shire described it as "excessive" and "poorly ...