Dairy
Dale Farm CEO Nick Whelan is quick to point out that milk producers and processers are both joined at the...
Agri-Business
The Claas Axion 960 CEMOS has been unveiled as the winner in the “Sustainable Tractor of the Year 2021” category of...
Dungannon farmers’ mart, Co. Tyrone, held its final dairy sale of the year, last Thursday (December 17). To get a...
N.Ireland
Economy Minister for Northern Ireland, Diane Dodds, has announced a new Assured Skills Academy for welding at South West College....
The Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast has joined forces with Belfast-born Great British Bake Off...
Beef
Results from a five-year trial, carried out by scientists at Reading University, confirms that dry matter output from diversified swards...
A transition cow can be identified as a cow three weeks’ pre-calving and three weeks’ post-calving. Dairy cows face many...
They may not be the most common sight on sheep farms, but they are becoming more popular…and that is slatted...
The supply of fresh air within livestock housing is critical to ensure good health and maximum performance from housed livestock...
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, it causes the swelling of the cow’s udder tissue...
The National Sheep Association (NSA) in the UK has said it is “outraged” by the situation faced by sheep breeders...
Agri Politics
The president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Tim Cullinan, and the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Minette...
Former National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and World Farming Organisation (WFO) president Peter Kendall believes that agriculture’s direct response to the...
Northern Ireland’s farm minister Edwin Poots has confirmed that Irish cattle imported into the north can be slaughtered there and...
A joint Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) research...
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle and other ruminants for which there is currently no cure. Johne’s is...
New housing measures are to be introduced as part of the avian influenza prevention zone in Northern Ireland from December...
As the total number of processed cattle for last week amounted to 35,702 head, some factories seem to be in...
