Environment
Are old fashioned farming methods the key for a sustainable future?
It might seem counterintuitive, but reverting back to traditional 1940s farming methods has boosted flora and fauna numbers by more...
Environment
It might seem counterintuitive, but reverting back to traditional 1940s farming methods has boosted flora and fauna numbers by more...
Environment
Three key farmland bird species have increased in numbers over a five-year period in response to agri-environmental schemes (AES), according...
Environment
When Portglenone farmer Damien Mc Allister was sowing a pollinator strip as part of an environmental scheme, he certainly didn’t think...
Agri-Business
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for a ‘joined-up’ approach to reduce ammonia in response to Defra’s Clean Air...
Environment
An inspirational Syrian beekeeping expert who has used his career with insects to help humans in the UK is set...
Arable
UK Ministers have appointed a new member of the board of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), who will...
Environment
A new ‘real-time’ strategy for future Foot and Mouth outbreaks states that focusing on surveillance and vaccination is the most...
Agri-Business
The National Sheep Association (NSA) is calling on policymakers to review the impact of renewable energy grants, saying the scheme...
Agri-Business
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Cymru’s Rural Affairs Board has voiced concerns around proposals to replace the Common Agricultural Policy in...
Agri-Business
Bore Hill Farm has become the first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in England to be certified under a new performance scheme....
Government
The Environment Secretary has today announced that the ‘Payment by Results’ (PBR) project will be the first agri-environment scheme directly...
Dairy
Dale Farm has launched the largest ‘self-consumption’ solar farm in Ireland at its cheese processing facility in Co. Tyrone. The...
Environment
Rural land managers have warned that to deliver for the environment successfully, any new ‘green watchdog’ must not add extra...
N.Ireland
A Northern Ireland farm lobby group has said that a number of “intolerable” issues and “lack of independent advice” have caused...
Environment
Inspections for Northern Ireland’s Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) farms are about to begin. Participants will have already claimed for the...
Beef
The Government has published a new guide today setting out the steps farmers, advisors and contractors can take to reduce ammonia...
Environment
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has launched an anonymous survey asking farmers to put forward their views on Northern Ireland’s...
Environment
The Government has published a series of documents detailing the proposed closure of the Feed-in Tariff Scheme for renewables and...