Arable
New smart tool to help growers minimise residue leaching
A new ‘smart tool’ aims to help growers mitigate the potential for key active ingredients and their residues to leach....
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Lockdown leads to resurgence in potato consumption across NI
The latest Kantar figures confirm that Northern Ireland’s potato packing sector sales have grown by 3.9% over the past year....
Agri-Business
Lockdown leads to resurgence in potato consumption across NI
The latest Kantar figures confirm that Northern Ireland’s potato packing sector sales have grown by 3.9% over the past year....
Arable
New online tool aids more accurate slug pellet application
A new online tool hopes to help operators set up slug pellet applicators to apply pellets with precision, minimising cost...
Agri-Business
Calls for Northern Ireland environmental planning quango to be disbanded
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
Agri-Business
Project to investigate Scottish 'carbon farming' opportunities
A new project will investigate ways Scottish farmers could draw down more carbon into their soils. The initiative will be...
Agri-Business
Calls for Northern Ireland environmental planning quango to be disbanded
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
Agri-Business
Milk composition a ‘lost opportunity’ for NI’s dairy sector
Northern Ireland’s poor milk composition is costing farmers poor milk prices, according to Agri Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) researcher...
Agri-Business
Milk composition a ‘lost opportunity’ for NI’s dairy sector
Northern Ireland’s poor milk composition is costing farmers poor milk prices, according to Agri Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) researcher...
Dairy
First Milk to increase price up by 0.5p/L for September
British farmer-owned co-operative First Milk has today announced that its September milk price will increase by 0.5p/L. This means its...
Agri-Business
4 new AgriSearch projects secure stage one funding
Agricultural research body AgriSearch has secured stage one funding for four Northern Ireland based projects. The projects will see AgriSearch...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
N.Ireland
North-west farmers plea for help 3 years on from devastating floods
Three years on from catastrophic flash flooding, farmers in Northern Ireland’s north-west are still pleading for government support. The floods...
Agri-Business
Sommet de l’Elevage livestock show will ‘go ahead as planned’ in October
A well-known livestock show in France – Sommet de l’Elevage – has apparently been given the “green light” to go...
Agri-Business
Poots rejects ammonia threshold at the centre of NI’s agricultural planning row
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
Agri-Business
Poots rejects ammonia threshold at the centre of NI’s agricultural planning row
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
