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Global dairy demand ‘not strong enough’ to absorb Q4 supply – Ornua
Global dairy demand ‘not strong enough’ to absorb Q4 supply – Ornua

Ornua’s market report for December 2025 paints a mixed picture of the dairy industry, both in Europe and beyond. Overall,...

NFU Cymru raises sustainable farming scheme with deputy first minister
NFU Cymru raises sustainable farming scheme with deputy first minister

NFU Cymru has reiterated key areas where it considers the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) needs to continue to evolve to...

UK Dairy Carbon Network: Sharing insights to cut emissions
UK Dairy Carbon Network: Sharing insights to cut emissions

The UK Dairy Carbon Network (UK-DCN) is an initiative working with dairy farms across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland...

Defra issues final estimate of 2025 harvest for UK
Defra issues final estimate of 2025 harvest for UK

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released the final estimate of UK 2025 cereal and oilseed...

Lack of DAERA information on bluetongue leaving farmers ‘in limbo’ – MP
Lack of DAERA information on bluetongue leaving farmers ‘in limbo’ – MP

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agriculture spokesperson, Carla Lockhart MP, urged the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to provide...

Environment Agency: Yorkshire recovering from drought
Environment Agency: Yorkshire recovering from drought

The Environment Agency has announced that Yorkshire has started moving into drought recovery status as of December 10. This change...

BBC coverage of rural Britain criticised
BBC coverage of rural Britain criticised

The Regional Moorland Groups has written to the next BBC director general calling for reform of the corporation’s rural coverage,...

CAFRE Horticulture Pilot Scheme application deadline extended
CAFRE Horticulture Pilot Scheme application deadline extended

The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has extended the application deadline for the Horticulture Pilot Scheme to...

MP welcomes re-opening of GB markets for NI exports
MP welcomes re-opening of GB markets for NI exports

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agriculture spokesperson, Carla Lockhart MP, has welcomed DAERA’s announcement that some live animal exports from Northern...

Antrim student wins Dairy Council NI award for sports nutrition
Antrim student wins Dairy Council NI award for sports nutrition

Co. Antrim student Chloé Robinson has been named as the winner of the 2025 Dairy Council for Northern Ireland Sports...

NI Water indicates temporary halt to farm inspections – UFU
NI Water indicates temporary halt to farm inspections – UFU

Northern Ireland Water has indicated they will suspend all water-fitting inspections temporarily until they meet with the Ulster Farmers’ Union...

UCC researcher to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming in Europe
UCC researcher to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming in Europe

A University College Cork (UCC) researcher’s project has received €2 million in EU funding to investigate how commercial cattle farming...

2025 on course to be joint-second warmest year
2025 on course to be joint-second warmest year

2025 is currently tied with 2023 to be the second-warmest year on record, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate...

Price and quality key factors for dairy consumers – survey
Price and quality key factors for dairy consumers – survey

Dairy consumers are more interested in feeling confident about the quality assurance of the products they buy than in getting...

FAO launches International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026
FAO launches International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, a global...

FAO launches International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026
FAO launches International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, a global...

FAO Food Price Index declines in November
FAO Food Price Index declines in November

World food commodity prices declined in November, led by lower international quotations for all major staple foods except cereals, according...

Soil Association seeks feedback from NI agri-food sector
Soil Association seeks feedback from NI agri-food sector

Farmers, vets, food processing and agri-food businesses are invited to help shape the future of organic food and farming by...