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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the old days of the Celtic fringe, having your own cattle was a sign of wealth. A herd was like a bank vault full of gold. A friend of mine remarked that those were good old days as, although she ...

Scotland's Crofting Commission is dysfunctional with "unacceptable weakness" in its leadership, a Holyrood committee has warned. Auditor General Stephen Boyle severely criticised the commission in his ...