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...
Arable
Agri-Business
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...
Arable
Drop in processing planting leads to third smallest potato area
The total area of potato planted in Britain is the third lowest on record at 117.47k/ha, according to a revised...
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
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
New app gives assistance in BYDV control
Syngenta recently launched its BYDV Assist App for mobile devices. The device will help farmers and agronomists to make decisions...
Agri-Business
Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases
UK wheat production for 2020 was estimated at 10.133 million tonnes in provisional figures released by the Department for Environment,...
Agri-Business
Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases
UK wheat production for 2020 was estimated at 10.133 million tonnes in provisional figures released by the Department for Environment,...
Agri-Business
Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases
UK wheat production for 2020 was estimated at 10.133 million tonnes in provisional figures released by the Department for Environment,...
Agri-Business
Which countries are most likely to impact on your grain prices?
Last week the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) outlined some of the key producers and exporters of wheat and...
Agri-Business
Which countries are most likely to impact on your grain prices?
Last week the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) outlined some of the key producers and exporters of wheat and...
Arable
Farmers can now avail of a new renewable energy crop
Farmers and landowners are urged to consider maximising returns and reducing risk with Miscanthus – a renewable energy crop with...
Agri-Business
Rapid diagnostic test for Botrytis launched
Mologic has launched a new rapid test for Botrytis. BotrytisAlert uses lateral flow technology to enable earlier disease intervention and...
Agri Politics
'Tariff-free sugar imports would distort the market' - NFU Sugar
NFU Sugar has urged the government to abandon its proposed tariff-free quota for raw cane sugar imports because of its...
Arable
Root and yield-boosting seed treatment gains UK approval for spring wheat
UK spring wheat growers have a new seed treatment option for this season’s plantings, with news that the SDHI-based fungicide...
Agri-Business
DAERA publishes ‘Farm Business Data’ handbook
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has published its Farm Business Data 2020 planning handbook. The...
Arable
Budweiser UK now sourcing 100% of its barley from British farms
Budweiser Brewing Group has announced it has achieved its goal of sourcing 100% of the barley used for its UK-produced...
Arable
Spring barley yields above average according to the AHDB
Just small amounts of the harvest in Great Britain remained to be cut as of September 22 as the dry...
