N.Ireland
UK cereal farmers are being urged to proactively plan for Brexit and not to “wait and see” what happens. Tillage...
Ulster braced itself for the worst, but by the time Ophelia reached the northern counties she had lost much of...
Machinery
Discs, drills and sprayers were what most farmers were enquiring about at Lemken’s tillage demo day, held in association with...
A text service has been launched to keep poultry farmers and bird keepers updated with the latest avian influenza threats....
A Crossmaglen farmer involved in fuel laundering has had £15,571 (€17,518) confiscated in court after 127t of domestic and commercial waste...
New Holland has notched up a silver medal at the upcoming Agritechnica show for its “pro-active and automatic” combine setting...
Agri-Business
A meat industry, heavy-weight who once directed one of the island’s largest meat firms, has ventured out on his own...
A major poultry conference encouraging Northern farmers to keep ahead of the industry’s challenges is set to take place next...
Two Co. Tyrone farmers have been hospitalised, and three animals have died, in a slurry accident just hours before this...
Access to finance, land and maintaining cross-border relationships are some of the biggest challenges the island’s Anaerobic Digestion (AD) industry will...
Northern farmers have been given an eleventh hour reprieve from the slurry ban with the ‘reasonable excuse‘ clause in the Nitrates...
Under pressure Northern farmers have been given an eleventh hour reprieve from the slurry ban, but union officials are warning...
Austrian machinery manufacturer Pottinger – known here in Ireland for its range of tillage, grass and forage machinery – has...
Two Co. Tyrone brothers have been fined in court for failing to correctly dispose of waste. John McDonnell of Frenchman’s...
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) could allow farmers to more effectively manage nutrient loading if digestate is correctly applied, researchers told delegates...
Northern Ireland’s Anaerobic Digestion (AD) sector is set to rocket within the next half decade. A government official who deals...
Rural Life
Two quads and a trailer were stolen from a UTV (utility transport vehicle) dealership over the weekend in Co. Fermanagh....
Edenderry man William Judge’s earliest memory is of sitting with his father on a Massey Ferguson 178. Little did he...
