Agri-Business
$15m food crisis funding for small rural farmers in Ukraine
Rural households, smallholder farmers and small-scale agricultural enterprises in Ukraine will benefit from a $15.5 million project funded by the...
N.Ireland
N.Ireland
750k hens to be culled in Czech Republic due to bird flu outbreak
Approximately 750,000 laying hens are to culled after an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) on a farm in the...
N.Ireland
Oilseed rape research: Disease control update
A comparative study of a fungal pathogen of oilseed rape (OSR) in Europe and China using new genetic markers has...
N.Ireland
Moy Park and NIFDA directors honoured in New Year’s honours list
A Moy Park director and an executive director of the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (NIFDA) have been acknowledged...
N.Ireland
How climate change has left millions without food in northern Kenya
The number of people suffering from acute food insecurity in the Horn of Africa – southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya and Somalia...
N.Ireland
‘Biocredits’ – global demand growing to fund biodiversity action
Global demand for biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, is growing among governments, people and businesses, according to a research paper for...
Agri-Business
All options open as Manitou invests in alternative fuels
Manitou has been busy exploring alternatives to powering its equipment with diesel engines. The company appears to favour electrical drive...
Agri-Business
Machinery: Farming’s 2022 revolution reviewed – part 2
Continuing with the theme of charting the ever changing face of farm mechanisation, we look at the second of half...
Agri-Business
Why slurry could power the future thanks to AD
What do slurry, anaerobic digestion (AD) and boiling a kettle have in common? In Ireland – not a lot now...
Agri-Business
Machinery: Farming’s 2022 revolution reviewed – part 1
A revolution will rarely happen overnight and despite the usual stream of commentators informing us that farming is going to...
Agri-Business
Jeremy Clarkson temporarily closes Diddly Squat Farm Shop
Jeremy Clarkson has said that he will close the Diddly Squat Farm Shop tomorrow (Saturday, December 31) until February. The...
N.Ireland
Ash dieback: Is Northern Ireland at point of no return?
According to Co. Armagh forester, Andrew Gardner, 96% of Northern Ireland’s ash trees are now infected with ash dieback disease....
N.Ireland
Jalex sale total comes to £413,000
Yesterday’s (Wednesday, December 28) Jalex select breeding heifer and bull sale saw 140 animals make a total of £413,000 in...
N.Ireland
Scientists fight to control sheep scab in the UK
Scientists at Moredun Research Institute are fighting to control the prevalence of sheep scab across the UK. Sheep scab, caused...
N.Ireland
French dairy herd to decline by 441,000 head by 2030
More than one quarter of dairy farms in France closed down over the past ten years, with a further decline...
Agri-Business
Ag-tech and sustainability trends forecast to accelerate in 2023
Significant trends in the agri-food industry are expected to emerge in 2023, following a challenging year which exposed a number...
N.Ireland
Lack of allotments and community gardens highlighted
The lack of allotments and community gardens on the island of Ireland was highlighted recently, at a meeting of community...
N.Ireland
Factory offering farmers free AI straws ‘to show benefit of better genetics’
In current times, all sectors of agriculture are working to find new ways of improving the efficiency of their operations...
