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From 2025 funding will become more targeted towards biodiversity gain and climate adaptation.

New conditions for peatlands and wetlands are set out in the latest update to the Agricultural Reform route map:

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New criteria for agricultural support will help farmers and crofters meet more of our food needs sustainably.

From 2025 a calving interval of 410 days will be added to the Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme to make beef production more efficient.

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I had the great privilege of addressing the Perthshire Sri Lankan community for Sinhala and Tamil New Year.They have very much become a part of our New Scots community, well educated, young,ambitious keen to live work and contribute to society here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇱🇰 Welcome 🙏

I may not be in a lambing shed anymore but my absolute sympathies go to all those hardy souls bearing the brunt of this hellish weather. Hope this from Kelvin gives you half a wee chuckle. Thoughts are with you if you’re lambing out just now.

It was a busy Ministerial day yesterday. Went to Upper Nesbit farm with Sheila Voas and NFU Scotland to meet Robert Neil and launch the consultation in cattle EID. Vital we get farmer input to the discussion. Also went to Bavelaw Estate to see some amazing AECS results. 🙏 to all

Busy day with constituency surgeries in Crieff Auchterarder and Dunning today. Also had meeting with wind farm developers who are doing a great job in community engagement and community benefits. Local benefits from local projects is the best possible outcome for folk

Can I just say that if you’re looking for a day out and want to see a world renowned piece of engineering at work, the only one in the world, take a wee trip to the Falkirk wheel, it’s brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant trip and tour through the Falkirk Wheel today with Scottish Canals amazing team. This engineering masterpiece hailed the world over, is the backdrop to so much potential to be harnessed from our canals and waterways. Thanks for the hospitality folks

Stopped off in Comrie for a great wee lunch stop at Hansen's Kichen and to meet John Cassells, the man behind Wild Hearth Bakery and see the brilliant new shop they opened 3 days ago. Caught up with CC to discuss local access issues, pressing community engagement to help solve it.

Met the chair of Community Council to discus various local issues and to highlight St Fillans Community Place Plan. Transport, planning and various other points raised. Seems to me there is scope for Crieff Comrie and St Fillans to benefit from a Community Bus, worth exploring?

Out with Jacqui Jensen #BelieveinScotland prepping for this Fridays constituency surgeries in Crieff Auchterarder and Dunning. Tel 01738 620540 for an appointment. Met up with the fabulous Martin and Laura from Rhubarb Cafe in Crieff who’ve just been voted best coffee and cake in Perthshire,

Listening again Holyrood Sources 25 years of devolution.Alex Salmond talking about Donald Dewar saying”he would never deny the right to self determination”Yet they put Schedule 5,1)b) into Scotland Act denying our right, giving it to WM. Don’t be fooled again by voting Labour

.Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 source quite entitled to their view - but no The SNP member/former member worth their salt will take a seat in the Lords. I have seen it 1st hand: lunch/hob-nobbing - collect £.

In a 15 000 mega poll, SNP hold 41 seats. I’ve said it many times before, Labour do not need Scotland to be in government, but while we are stuck in this Union Scotland absolutely needs SNP MPs or we simply get lost in the mire, and only SNP seats keep independence on agenda

A huge thanks to all who donated pre the
St. Johnstone FC v Dundee Football Club match.
With your help, we collected 25 crates full of food & toiletries for Perth & Kinross Foodbank Foodbank, & £114 for Saints in the Community
Football fans coming together to support the #Community
#WeAreMoreThanFootball
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Well done folks, definitely need to keep the message getting out there, especially just now when the pressure can be intense.

As a Letham lad it was brilliant to get a sneak peek round The Hub in Letham which will open very soon serving the whole of North Perth and beyond. ⁦Pete Wishart⁩ ⁦PerthCityNorth John⁩ met with Susie and Gordon who have been immense in getting to here. Well done folks