Hill farmer Brian Walker, an NFU Scotland member from Inveraray in Argyll is calling on the Scottish Government to urgently provide the emergency authorisation for the bracken control herbicide Asulam for the benefit of upland farming and crofting across Scotland.
Mr Walker, a tenant farmer at Carloonan Farm, looks after 2500 acres of hill ground with 80 suckler cows and 950 breeding ewes.
He said if Scottish Government failed to provide authorisation, it would be “a dereliction of duty to protect farmers, crofters, the rural workforce, and public health.”
