Environment
Farmer urged to take care as heat and fish kills trigger summer water pollution warning
Industry, landowners and farmers have been urged to take extra care during the summer months to reduce the risk of water...
Environment
Industry, landowners and farmers have been urged to take extra care during the summer months to reduce the risk of water...
Environment
An amendment to Scottish hedgecutting regulations will allow cutting to take place prior to the sowing of oilseed rape and...
Agri-Business
The World Biogas Association has this week announced it will join the United Nations Environment Programme’s Climate and Clean Air Coalition...
Environment
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced that all Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement holders who claimed...
Environment
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) President Minette Batters has called for immediate bridging payments for agri-environment agreement holders and a rollover...
Environment
Natural England’s chairman Andrew Sells has announced his intention to retire in January 2019 after five years in the role....
Environment
The Environment Secretary Michael Gove has challenged water companies to increase investment and improve environmental outcomes by 2025. The ambitious...
Environment
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is currently investigating a major fish kill on the River Callan in Armagh city....
Environment
Ammonia levels in Northern Ireland have come under scrutiny at UK level in a draft Government report which is out...
Environment
EU ministers have been urged to become as ‘self-sufficient as possible in terms of energy‘ – with the primary focus...
N.Ireland
It has been reported that up to 100,000 gallons of slurry spilled into a river in Northern Ireland earlier this...
N.Ireland
The UK Government has today (Tuesday, May 22) published a new strategy to cut air pollution in the coming years...
N.Ireland
A pioneering study at the new Nutrient Management Centre at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) is set to test...
N.Ireland
Half a million pounds have been ear-marked for a department-funded project to tackle impact of flooding in the north-west. The...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Environmental Farming Scheme, Higher Level is now open for applications. Applications for the scheme – which is also...
Environment
A carbon-neutral, energy-positive wastewater treatment technology, developed by Irish firm NVP Energy, is now being rolled out at food and...
N.Ireland
Local councils are not treating farmers involved in greenways projects fairly, the Ulster Farmer’s Union (UFU) has warned. The 25-year...
N.Ireland
A £23 million (€26 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Ballymena has become one of the first of its kind...