Agriland Team

Clean and green: Merlo unveils electric e-Worker telehandler
Clean and green: Merlo unveils electric e-Worker telehandler

The green-liveried Merlo telehandler range is set to take on a second “green” dimension with the arrival early next year...

Women in Food and Agriculture announces December Digital Festival
Women in Food and Agriculture announces December Digital Festival

Women in Food and Agriculture (WFA) has announced its Digital Festival will take place on December 8 and 9, 2020....

Hare coursers arrested following chase involving helicopter
Hare coursers arrested following chase involving helicopter

Five people have been arrested for hare coursing following an incident which involved a police chase and an air support...

UK labelling changes: Food from NI can be labelled ‘Origin EU’ post Brexit
UK labelling changes: Food from NI can be labelled ‘Origin EU’ post Brexit

Food labelling changes which will come into effect from January 1, 2021, have been revealed by the UK government. In...

Denmark to cull all mink due to coronavirus mutation
Denmark to cull all mink due to coronavirus mutation

The world’s largest producer of mink fur will cull all its mink after scientists discovered a mutation of coronavirus that...

How did the biggest agricultural states vote in the US election?
How did the biggest agricultural states vote in the US election?

The race remains tight between Republican and current president of the US Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden as the...

Poots encourages NI farmers to apply for farm business funding
Poots encourages NI farmers to apply for farm business funding

Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has encouraged farmers to consider applying to the third tranche of Tier 1 of...

Cows processed reaches highest weekly throughput in Northern Ireland
Cows processed reaches highest weekly throughput in Northern Ireland

In Northern Ireland for the week ending October 25, processed prime cattle throughput amounted to 7,418 head, according to the...

CAFRE launches new Honours Degree in Sustainable Agriculture
CAFRE launches new Honours Degree in Sustainable Agriculture

The Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Edwin Poots, has announced the launch of a new Honours Degree in...

GDT index drops in latest auction
GDT index drops in latest auction

The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) index has dropped for the first time in four auctions, following three consecutive increases. The...

HSENI launches advisory programme for safety of farm contractors
HSENI launches advisory programme for safety of farm contractors

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is set to begin a series of telephone and virtual agriculture...

Report: Agricultural crime down 7.6% in the last 12 months – PSNI
Report: Agricultural crime down 7.6% in the last 12 months – PSNI

A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) report has stated that agricultural crime rates have continued to fall in the...

Fonterra posts ‘most encouraging progress to date’ in latest sustainability report
Fonterra posts ‘most encouraging progress to date’ in latest sustainability report

Fonterra has reported its “most encouraging sustainability results since starting its annual reporting four years ago”, according to the Kiwi...

Poultry flock slaughtered on Kent farm after suspected case of avian influenza
Poultry flock slaughtered on Kent farm after suspected case of avian influenza

A poultry farm in Kent has had an entire flock of birds slaughtered after the flock was suspected to have low-pathogenic...

Research finds open fires ‘could pose substantial hazard to older people’s health’
Research finds open fires ‘could pose substantial hazard to older people’s health’

Collaborative research from scientists at the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) led by Trinity College Dublin and Lancaster University...

Illegal Halloween rave discovered on an abandoned Scottish farm
Illegal Halloween rave discovered on an abandoned Scottish farm

Police in Scotland were called to the scene of an illegal rave in Newton Mears last Saturday (October 31) where...

‘Next is Now’: Bobcat unveils new R-Series loaders
‘Next is Now’: Bobcat unveils new R-Series loaders

Bobcat has recently unveiled its new R-Series loaders and excavators at the company’s “largest ever virtual launch event” in Europe,...

Beef kill: 2020 figures continue to race ahead of last year
Beef kill: 2020 figures continue to race ahead of last year

Last week a total of 37,143 head of cattle were processed. This figure has suffered a decline of 520 head...