Agriland Team

Watch: Diminishing routes to market for Manx farmers
Watch: Diminishing routes to market for Manx farmers

Farmers on the Isle of Man (IOM) are becoming more dependent on exporting their produce as the local routes to...

CAN fertiliser falls below €500/t – a first since crisis
CAN fertiliser falls below €500/t – a first since crisis

For the first time since the fertiliser crisis began back in early 2022, Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) has dropped to...

Agri-food Brexit impact: ‘Even printer ink was taking 6 weeks’
Agri-food Brexit impact: ‘Even printer ink was taking 6 weeks’

By Barbara Collins Since Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU) in 2016, there have been years of debate...

ABP to help farming charity with shed as prize at Balmoral Show
ABP to help farming charity with shed as prize at Balmoral Show

Agri-food business, ABP, is marking 25 years at Balmoral Show, which gets underway this week (May 10-13), with a draw...

World’s first oral lice treatment for sheep registered
World’s first oral lice treatment for sheep registered

The world’s first oral product for managing lice in sheep has been registered for use by Australia’s veterinary medicines authority....

Commercial heifer hits record £23,000 at Jalex on-farm sale
Commercial heifer hits record £23,000 at Jalex on-farm sale

A number of records were broke at James and Nelson Alexander’s Jalex Select on-farm sale of commercial heifers which took...

Diversifying from dairy to become a ‘Farm Foodie’ in Co. Antrim
Diversifying from dairy to become a ‘Farm Foodie’ in Co. Antrim

By Barbara Collins The cliché of the farmer’s wife making ‘pin money’ with pots of jam is a well-worn trope,...

Irish finished bullocks €100/head behind NI beef prices
Irish finished bullocks €100/head behind NI beef prices

Beef prices in Northern Ireland and across the UK have lifted substantially over the past number of weeks, with last...

NI farm incomes increase by over 17% in 2022
NI farm incomes increase by over 17% in 2022

Farm incomes in Northern Ireland have increased by 17.4%, according to figures published today (Thursday, April 27) by the Department...

Spain’s ag minister requests EU crisis funds amid severe drought
Spain’s ag minister requests EU crisis funds amid severe drought

Spain has requested the use of crisis funds from the EU to deal with the drought conditions the country is...

Antimicrobial use in agriculture could fuel future epidemics – study
Antimicrobial use in agriculture could fuel future epidemics – study

A new University of Oxford study has revealed that antimicrobial overuse in livestock production can breed bacteria that are resistant...

NI herd named British Friesian Herd of the Year
NI herd named British Friesian Herd of the Year

The British Friesian Herd of the Year Award has been won by the Northern Irish Inch herd from Downpatrick, Co....

Export programmes deliver £55.6m in sales for NI dairy industry
Export programmes deliver £55.6m in sales for NI dairy industry

The Dairy Council for Northern Ireland (DCNI) has announced £55.6 million in new sales of dairy products to markets in...

EFS payments of almost £9 million issue to NI farmers
EFS payments of almost £9 million issue to NI farmers

Payments totalling £8.96 million have commenced issuing to Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) agreement holders in Northern Ireland. The Department of...

Two farmers convicted at Co. Tyrone magistrates court
Two farmers convicted at Co. Tyrone magistrates court

Two Co. Tyrone farmers have been convicted at Dungannon Magistrates Court on separate charges following cattle identification inspections carried out...

Poultry farmers told risk of bird flu has ‘reduced’
Poultry farmers told risk of bird flu has ‘reduced’

Poultry farmers have been reassured that the risk level for bird flu has “reduced significantly” as as the requirement to...

Bird flu housing measures to be lifted in NI
Bird flu housing measures to be lifted in NI

Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that the avian influenza (bird flu) housing measures...

Explosion and fire on Texas farm kills 18,000 cattle
Explosion and fire on Texas farm kills 18,000 cattle

Initial investigations into an explosion and massive fire at a Texas dairy farm, which killed an estimated 18,000 cows, suggest...