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Chestnutt: Let’s use 2021 to show what the public can gain from backing NI farming

January 2, 2021

2020 has certainly been challenging for everyone and as we enter a new year, however, it’s important that as a farming community we…

The work to secure PGI status for beef from Northern Ireland must start now

December 31, 2020

Opinion

Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has confirmed that the application to secure Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status for…

Letter to the editor: Rejection of Agriculture Bill feels ‘out of step with both industry and public sentiment’

October 22, 2020

Opinion

While it is understandable that the government would not want to jeopardise future trade deals at this critical juncture, the Commons’ rejection of…

Farm Safety Week: ‘It’s hard to deny farming is the only UK industry which kills children in the workplace’

July 24, 2020

Opinion

Farm Safety Week for 2020 may be nearly over, but vigilance must continue throughout the whole year writes NFU Scotland vice-president Charlie Adam.…

Letter to the editor: ‘New Deal’ – from the Great Depression – needed for NI farming

July 17, 2020

N.Ireland

We – in the Farmers For Action group – believe that no one can deny that the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi…

Letter to the editor: ‘Our over-55 farmers would have never retired in the first place’

April 5, 2020

N.Ireland

Farmers supply what fills the supermarkets’ shelves. Life on Northern Ireland’s farms is not getting any easier, as Covid-19 tightens its grip. Nevertheless,…

Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

April 1, 2020

N.Ireland

By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis we’ve seen for…

Top NI dairy advisor calls for move to milk solids based pricing

December 21, 2019

Dairy

One of Northern Ireland’s most respected agricultural advisors has called for the region’s dairy industry to make the move to a solids-based pricing…

Is the climate change debate heading in the wrong direction for UK agriculture?

January 2, 2019

Opinion

Brexit may well prove to be a minor hurdle relative to the challenge of climate change for UK agriculture over the coming years.…

Paying for cattle on the basis of meat yield just doesn’t stack up

January 1, 2019

Opinion

At least one farm stakeholder group in the Republic of Ireland is now calling for cattle to be paid for in terms of…

Bluetongue is the last problem we need

December 31, 2018

Opinion

Recently saw the alarm bells ringing in Northern Ireland in the wake of a heifer imported from France testing positive for Bluetongue. So…

Farmers are the true custodians of the soil

December 30, 2018

N.Ireland

December 5 this year was World Soil Day. I hope it provided members of the general public everywhere with the opportunity to pause…

Farmers are the true custodians of the soil

December 30, 2018

Opinion

December 5 this year was World Soil Day. I hope it provided members of the general public everywhere with the opportunity to pause and…

India is turning out to be a good news story for the UK’s sheep industry

December 28, 2018

Opinion

The news that sheep meat exports will soon be making their way from the UK to India is to be warmly welcomed. By…

Preventing animal disease is the next frontier for agriculture in the UK

December 27, 2018

Opinion

Improving animal health standards and reducing disease levels represent the next challenge for British agriculture. A case in point is the fact that…

NFU has gotten its principles all wrong

December 25, 2018

Opinion

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is at least one ‘principle’ short, if my reading of the organisation’s latest Brexit demands is anything to go…

It really is time to support home-grown produce

December 24, 2018

Opinion

I am aware of the ongoing debate within the fresh produce sector as to what proportion of the monies coming in at the…

Beef and sheep farmers need Brexit certainty now

December 3, 2018

Opinion

Assuming Theresa May gets a Brexit deal across the line with her parliamentary colleagues over the coming weeks, then the Government must act…

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