Environment
LMC calls for single climate bill for Northern Ireland
Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) chief executive, Ian Stevenson, believes there is scope for politicians at Stormont to agree on...
Environment
Environment
Removal of Dovecliff weir set to improve water quality
The £2.5 million project to remove the Dovecliff weir at Egginton, South Derbyshire – the biggest weir removal project in...
Environment
Greenhouse Gas methodology changes means more bang for NI’s climate action efforts
Changes to how Greenhouse Gas emissions will be measured mean Northern Ireland will achieve a larger contribution to the UK's...
Forestry
Views sought on new Corporate Plan for FLS
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has announced it is consulting on its new, three-year Corporate Plan. Setting out the organisation’s...
Environment
NI protein crop pilot payments to be issued next week
Payments for Northern Ireland's pilot protein crops scheme are set to begin next week. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
Agri-Business
M&S commits to sustainable agriculture through 5-year programme
M&S has committed to sustainable agriculture through a new five-year collaborative programme designed to help its Select Farmers gain resilience...
Environment
Soil carbon levels keep on rising after 50 years of slurry trial
The fact that soil carbon sequestration levels in grassland have kept on rising 50 years into a bespoke slurry spreading...
Environment
‘Countryside COP’ to take place this week
An environmental conference taking place this week - Countryside COP - hopes to showcase and inspire actions to tackle the...
Dairy
Dairy industry urged to share GHG emissions facts ahead of COP26
Dairy industry leaders have urged farmers to get behind a drive to spread accurate facts about Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions...
Agri-Business
McDonald’s commends NI supply chain
McDonald’s celebrated 30 years of business in Northern Ireland this week and commended its suppliers in Northern Ireland for "punching...
Environment
£12.1 million flood defences in Lancaster officially launched
A major flood risk management scheme on the River Lune, designed to protect hundreds of properties from the risk of...
Agri-Business
Environment is additional income opportunity – Poots
Northern Ireland agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, used his attendance at a McDonald’s event, held earlier this week, to confirm his...
Environment
NI farm trials to test willow’s ability to reduce methane emissions
Farm trials investigating the potential of willow to reduce livestock methane emissions are to begin in Northern Ireland in the...
Environment
New air quality alert system launched for NI
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has announced changes to his department’s High Air Pollution Alert Protocol to improve public...
Agri-Business
Brazil approves methane-reducing livestock feed additive
Royal DSM, a global company active in nutrition, health and sustainable living, has received regulatory approval from the Brazilian and...
Beef
27% of UK and Irish farmers unsure that N management could help climate
More than a quarter of farmers in the UK and Republic of Ireland have yet to be convinced that improved...
Environment
Defra launches its Implementation Plan for Healthy Bees Plan 2030
A raft of new actions were published by the government today (October 5) aimed at sustaining populations of honey bees...
Machinery
World’s first biomethane-powered hybrid tractor unveiled
Europe's largest vertically integrated organic food producer, the Lithuania-based AUGA group, has introduced the world's first hybrid biomethane and electric...
