Environment
Slurry tanks around the country are reaching capacity and agricultural contractors are gearing up for a busy spell. This comes...
N.Ireland
More than two-thirds of those in British agriculture would vote to remain if the UK’s EU Referendum took place now,...
Approximately 2,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the slurry ban to be scrapped in Northern Ireland. The...
Motorists were left stunned after a tractor driver hauling bales of straw appeared to have had a narrow miss with...
The brucellosis testing programme in Northern Ireland will be relaxed further, bringing significant benefits and savings for our farmers and...
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) today launched a competition to appoint seven members to its new...
Machinery
The ongoing evolution of tractors within a company’s line-up can be somewhat confusing to those who are not ardent followers...
Dr. Sinclair Mayne, chief executive of the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), announced earlier today that he plans to retire...
The latest series of hit agricultural show ‘Rare Breed – A Farming Year’ is set to return to screens across...
Dairy
A group of farmers in Scotland, who banded together to negotiate the first post Milk Marketing Board milk price contract,...
Upcoming College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) open dairy days will focus on six main themes, including: feed...
Rural Life
Having organised a hugely successful tractor run on December 27, to support the family of baby Emily Byrne, the Knockanore Melleray...
Department officials have said the ammonia recommendations made this week highlight the “need for the government and agri-food sector to...
Farmers at an Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) meeting in Cornwall (England) were warned of the dangers of buying new equipment...
Northern Ireland’s environment agency (NIEA) is understood to have put a virtual deadlock on many major farm building projects because...
Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has hit out at comments made today at the Oxford Farming Conference by UK...
A working group commissioned by Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture has published several recommendations to curb the problem of excess...
Agri-Business
This morning the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, gave assurances that Basic Payment...
