N.Ireland
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...
Agri-Business
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...
Environment
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...
Northern Ireland’s food and drink sector needs to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia emissions, improve water and soil quality...
The livestock sector must “transform” along with other elements of global agri-food systems to be more efficient, the Food and...
New research suggests that the reduction or removal of antibiotics will not reverse antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Latest research from Alltech’s...
The key role British farmers and growers play in “feeding the nation” and caring for the environment will be showcased...
Lakeland Dairies has today (Tuesday, October 24) unveiled plans to launch a new voluntary fixed milk price scheme in the...
Proposals put forward by the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Chris Heaton-Harris, to cut stock valuations for TB reactor cattle...
Losses from the nitrogen cycle “cannot be eliminated” so the livestock sector needs to minimise them and hold more nitrogen...
