Arable
A leading Co. Down tillage farmer has confirmed that field beans are an extremely valuable break crop within all cereal...
Beef
Stephen Flanagan is a beef and sheep adviser with the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern...
The final results of the June 2020 Agricultural Census have been released today by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
Northern Ireland’s potato industry is hoping against hope that a derogation allowing the importation of both ware and seed from...
Machinery
Agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO proved to be the big winner at the latest Tractor of the Year 2021 awards –...
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...
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...
