Agri-Business
Clandeboye Estate launches £2 million expansion to quadruple production
Northern Ireland’s only yoghurt maker, Clandeboye Estate, has announced it will invest over £2 million to expand its yoghurt business...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Grain price: Green lights in the markets
Grain markets were in the green this week. Prices have been increasing over the past few weeks and on Thursday...
Agri-Business
Grain price: Green lights in the markets
Grain markets were in the green this week. Prices have been increasing over the past few weeks and on Thursday...
Rural Life
RCVS launches 2 new awards for 2021 to celebrate community and compassion
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) launched two new awards to celebrate compassion and community within the sector for...
Environment
New advisory panel to drive NFU Scotland's response to climate change
NFU Scotland’s newly established Climate Change Advisory Panel has met via video call for the first time today (September 11,...
Dairy
MP appeals to farmers to speak out if supermarkets are abusing their power
Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, has called on the government to protect small dairy farmers from “predatory” supermarkets. Loder...
Rural Life
Royal Bath & West Society cancels Dairy Show for 2020
Organisers have been forced to cancel one of England’s last hopes of an agricultural show before the end of 2020...
Agri-Business
Germany confirms its first case of African swine fever
Germany has confirmed its first case of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar found dead in Brandenburg close...
Agri-Business
Greening requirements to be scrapped in NI from 2021
Plans are afoot to scrap greening requirements in Northern Ireland, the region’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has announced today (September...
Agri-Business
Greening requirements to be scrapped in NI from 2021
Plans are afoot to scrap greening requirements in Northern Ireland, the region’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has announced today (September...
Sheep
Welsh Government commits to increasing wool in public buildings
Wales has become the first of any UK nation to formally commit to using more wool in its public buildings....
Agri-Business
Poots writes to southern counterpart over NI eligibility for Bord Bia schemes
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has written to his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland over concerns as to...
Agri-Business
Poots writes to southern counterpart over NI eligibility for Bord Bia schemes
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has written to his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland over concerns as to...
Rural Life
2020 Back British Farming Day to highlight value of UK agriculture
The National Farmers’ Union is inviting MPs and farmers up and down the country to throw their weight behind Back...
Agri-Business
Brexit: ‘We might be losing the UK, but we won’t lose our stiff upper lip’
“We might be losing the UK, but we won’t lose our stiff upper lip.” Tensions are running high as Brexit...
Agri-Business
How green is NI’s energy: How much of the region’s electric is from renewable sources?
Almost half the electric used in Northern Ireland this year has been generated from renewable sources, according to new figures...
Agri-Business
How green is Northern Ireland’s energy?
Almost half the electric used in Northern Ireland this year has been generated from renewable sources, according to new figures...
Agri-Business
CAFRE’s Technology Demonstration Farms get up and running again
Northern Ireland’s College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) has announced that its Technology Demonstration Farm programme is back...
