• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Support
  • Fix My Street
  • Representation
  • TDCC

My Turriff

News, views and events from Turriff, Aberdeenshire

  • Home
  • Covid-19
  • #Fiverfest
  • Business Directory
  • Contact

Public asked to exercise responsibly when using farmland

Published by Mike Rawlins

As Government enforces ‘lockdown’ on people leaving their homes for non-essential trips, NFU Scotland is urging those who will be exercising on farmland to ensure that their access is responsible.

Understandably, given social distancing requirements, the public are seeking routes where they are less likely to encounter other people. As this is often not on formal paths, farmers are reporting increased access levels in the countryside around towns and villages. Unfortunately, this has also seen a large increase in the amount of access issues being reported to the Union by NFU Scotland members.

It is important for the public to remember that farming activities such as lambing and calving are ongoing and to ensure that they do not do anything which could jeopardise this. This includes not taking access to fields where there are young lambs or calves present, ensuring that they adhere to social distancing requirements if they come across farmers or farm workers and finding alternative routes when asked to do so.

Also on My Turriff
Police Scotland statement on changes to public protection levels

Where the public are exercising with dogs, it is important that they are kept in sight and under close control. In order to ensure the safety of farmers and their workers during Covid-19, the public may encounter additional signage requests, which they are urged to adhere to.

Gemma Cooper, NFU Scotland Head of Policy Team said

In these unprecedented circumstances, farmers are already seeing an increasing number of access issues being caused by the public taking their daily exercise.

It is important for the public to understand that farming activities are food production and these must continue during Covid-19. NFU Scotland is asking the public to ensure that their behaviour does not make farming activities any more difficult than it already is in these unprecedented times.

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Farming Published 26th March 2020 at 4:54 pm and Last Modified: March 26, 2020 at 4:54 pm

Get My Turriff delivered to your inbox

Sign up for the My Turriff Daily(ish) newletter

We will only use your email address to send you content from My Turriff, you can unsubscribe from the list at any time.

Primary Sidebar

This Business Supports My Turriff

  • Florence & May

Footer

© 2012–2021 My Turriff· Privacy Policy · Cookies · Complaints