Agri-Business
Echlinville Distillery announces £9 million expansion plan
Northern Ireland’s only single-estate distillery has announced a £9 million expansion plan as it expands its facilities in the Ards Peninsula...
Agri-Business
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Poots opens £1.6 million ornamental horticulture support scheme
A financial support scheme to help Northern Ireland ornamental horticulture growers with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has opened...
Agri-Business
On the Horizon: Lely unveils latest farm management app
A new farm management application, dubbed Lely Horizon, has been recently unveiled by Lely. Revealed by the Dutch dairy robotics...
Agri-Business
Dairy market analysis: Euro SMP prices firm up while butter recovers
European skim milk powder (SMP) prices continued to firm up while butter saw some support this week after last week’s...
Agri-Business
Cost of farm fires up by £1 million in Northern Ireland
Rural insurer NFU Mutual is urging farmers to check their fire precautions and have emergency plans in place, as the...
Agri-Business
LMC launches 8-week ‘Truth About Beef’ campaign
The Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) has this week launched a new campaign to highlight the environmental and health credentials of...
Agri-Business
Cost of farm fires up by £1 million in Northern Ireland
Rural insurer NFU Mutual is urging farmers to check their fire precautions and have emergency plans in place, as the...
Agri-Business
Lapsers: Social influencers to blame as 26% plan to reduce red meat consumption
More than one in four Northern Ireland adults say they plan to eat less red meat because of social media...
Agri-Business
Lapsers: Social influencers to blame as 26% plan to reduce red meat consumption
More than one in four Northern Ireland adults say they plan to eat less red meat because of social media...
Agri-Business
Report: Women make up only 36% of meat industry workforce
A new international report has for the first time established how many women are working within the meat sector. It...
Agri-Business
NI farmers to receive full Direct Payments in October for the first time
Farmers in Northern Ireland will, for the first time, receive their full Direct Payments this month, the region’s Agriculture Minister...
Agri-Business
Successful first year for the Scottish Land Matching Service
The Scottish Land Matching Service (SLMS), supported by the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS), has had a successful first year...
Agri-Business
Poots: The EU needs to back off and butt out
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has warned the EU to “back off” and “butt out” of decisions over...
Agri-Business
Poots: The EU needs to back off and butt out
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has warned the EU to “back off” and “butt out” of decisions over...
Agri-Business
Tillage farmers take interest in Nobel Prize winners
Two scientists who developed the CRISPR technique most commonly known as gene-editing were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last...
Agri-Business
RCVS Council votes to extend temporary remote prescribing guidance
At its meeting last week (Thursday, October 8), the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) voted to...
Agri-Business
NI vet shortage: Poots insists new TB strategy is ‘a priority’
Fears Northern Ireland’s bovine TB woes could yet again be put on the backburner have been dismissed by Agriculture Minister...
Agri-Business
NI vet shortage: Poots insists new TB strategy is ‘a priority’
Fears Northern Ireland’s bovine TB woes could yet again be put on the backburner have been dismissed by Agriculture Minister...
