Beef
Lamb labelled 'runaway success' of Christmas 2025
Grocery sales reached a record £13.8 billion for Christmas 2025, with shoppers spending on average £476 at supermarkets during the...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Nominations open for British Veterinary Association Awards
Nominations are now open for this year’s prestigious British Veterinary Association (BVA) Awards. Vets, vet teams and for some awards, members...
Agri-Business
Tips and advice on improving ventilation in existing cattle sheds
Improving air movement and ventilation in existing cattle sheds can be achieved in many cases without incurring significant construction costs....
N.Ireland
Marks & Spencer sees significant bump in food sales for Christmas
Marks & Spencer saw a bump of almost 6% on food sales on a like-for-like basis in the final quarter...
Agri-Business
France joins Ireland in decision to vote against Mercosur trade deal
France has formally announced that it has decided to vote against the proposed EU Mercosur Trade Agreement at a meeting...
N.Ireland
AgriSearch makes new appointments to board of trustees
AgriSearch, the farmer-funded research and innovation body, has announced appointments to its board of trustees. Dr. Keith Agnew and Cormac...
Agri-Business
Knight Frank: 1ac of farmland now worth just under £8,700
The farmland market remains becalmed, but the government’s inheritance tax U-turn could boost confidence, according to a global property consultancy....
N.Ireland
Financial support for pre-movement testing in NI bluetongue control zone
It has been announced that some financial support will be provided for the pre-movement testing of high-risk animals out of...
Agri-Business
Watch: French farmers stage dawn protest over Mercosur deal and CAP
French farmers mobilised in Paris at dawn today (Thursday, January 8) to highlight a number of concerns they have for...
Agri-Business
Brazilian beef with banned growth hormone entered Irish market
128kg of Brazilian beef that contained a banned growth promoting hormone entered the Irish market, the Food Safety Authority of...
Agri-Business
France moves to stop imports produced with banned substances
The government of France has said it will officially move to suspend imports of plant products that are grown with...
Agri-Business
NFU appoints new director general with mixed farm background
Sophie Throup has been appointed to succeed Terry Jones as director general of the NFU when he steps down in...
Agri-Business
NI brucellosis compensation rates for January confirmed
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has published the brucellosis compensation rates for Northern Ireland for January...
Agri-Business
FAO: 72,000 West Bank families need emergency agricultural assistance
More than 72,000 farming and herding families in the West Bank – nearly two-thirds of all agricultural families – urgently...
N.Ireland
Inheritance tax relief increase ‘step in right direction for farm families’ – UFU
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said today’s (Tuesday, December 23) announcement on inheritance tax “represents a step in the...
Agri-Business
Breaking: UK Government increases inheritance tax relief after farmer pressure
The UK Government has today (Tuesday, December 23) announced that the level of the Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold...
N.Ireland
Dawn Meats and Dunbia celebrate year end with 60 awards
Dawn Meats and Dunbia, a division of Dawn Meats, are celebrating the end of the year with 60 successful award...
Agri-Business
EPPO investigates possible fraud involving tech for agriculture in Lithuania
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Lithuania is investigating possible subsidy fraud by a company with alleged links to...
