Environment
The UK Government has published new plans to boost “nature recovery” on land and at sea. The new plans –...
N.Ireland
The absence of a Northern Ireland Executive over the last two years has resulted in “much needed decisions” for the...
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said the gap in the base milk price in Northern Ireland compared to other...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is currently investigating the reported theft of a cattle trailer from a farmyard in Co....
Beef
The UK mutually-owned supermarket, the Co-op, is partnering with Dunbia, a division of Dawn Meats, to launch a new pilot...
Agri-Business
A bakery in Northern Ireland, which has been in business since 1912, has settled an age discrimination case with a...
A new £3.3 million, UK government backed, research project has been launched to test a new approach to grassland farming...
Vet prices are rising faster than inflation but a review by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) should help...
Slurry can be a “valuable source of nutrients” but poor management of slurry is a “significant threat” to water quality...
The last 12 months have been “one of the most turbulent, weather-related years on record” for farmers, according to the...
The dairy nutrition company Volac is to close its purpose-built finishing and packing facility near Kells, in Ireland. The company,...
A further three cases of bluetongue in cattle have been identified in the Sandwich Bay area of Kent, the UK...
Significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be achieved through improvement of management practices in dairy farming, a new...
Agri Politics
The UK Government will “always back British farmers”, the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has...
Pig/Poultry
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a human case of a flu virus which is currently circulating in...
The average upland farm business in England has lost 37% of its support payments under the Department for Environment Food...
Farmers in the south-east of England have been contacted by the UK’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to notify...
There are no plans to establish an all-island system of identifying cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), according...
