N.Ireland
Farmworkers celebrate Tyrone victory… from the desert!
Two Irish farmworkers based on a dairy farm in the middle of the United Arab Emirates desert celebrated Tyrone's All-Ireland...
N.Ireland
Agri-Business
CattleEye secures $2.5 million seed investment to launch autonomous stock monitoring system
Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company CattleEye has closed a $2.5 million (€2.1 million) seed investment round. The money has come...
Agri-Business
MII welcomes announcement by UK to defer import controls
Meat Industry Ireland (MII) has welcomed a decision by the UK government to defer safety and security checks on EU...
Agri-Business
Calls for NI Executive to intervene agri-food staff shortages – Sugden
Independent MLA Claire Sugden has called on Northern Ireland's Executive to act to ensure services, food and goods supply lines...
Agri-Business
UK to delay border checks until July 2022
The UK government has announced that safety and security checks on EU produce at UK borders will not be required...
Beef
Cattle ‘toilet trained’ by researchers in bid to cut emissions
A team of researchers from New Zealand and Germany say they have successfully "toilet trained" cattle, which they argue will...
Agri-Business
Doosan scoops awards with ‘see through’ bucket
Doosan claims to have overcome the major problem that all loader drivers face, i.e. the large and highly critical blind...
Environment
‘If Stormont collapses, so will NI’s Climate Bill’, protesters warn
Protesters at Stormont have warned if Northern Ireland's political institutions fail, so will a controversial bill setting a net-zero target...
N.Ireland
LMC welcomes new farm policy framework for Northern Ireland
Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland (LMC) chief executive, Ian Stevenson, has welcomed the principles espoused within the ‘Future...
N.Ireland
Queen’s study explains how flavonoid-rich foods help lower blood pressure
New research carried out at Queen's University has found part of the reason why consuming flavonoid-rich foods like red wine,...
Agri-Business
Farming and food in NI can look forward with confidence -NIFDA
Despite the challenges of growing labour shortages, rising inflation and strengthening input costs, there is a general feeling that the...
Agri-Business
British sheepmeat mislabeled as Irish – Carthy
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request relating to sheepmeat has confirmed a case involving ‘mislabeling UK ovine as Irish origin'...
Agri-Business
Pottinger updates its Impress baler range
It was five years ago that Pottinger introduced its very own range of Impress round balers. These were developed completely...
Arable
Warm weather brings threat of BYDV for cereal growers
The current spell of warm weather will be welcomed by almost every farmer, but if it were to continue for...
Dairy
September’s to do list: Selecting sires, fodder budget and grass
Summer has come to an end, we have now entered September and autumn has begun. Now is a good time...
Agri-Business
Fane Valley proposals for new processing plant to create up to 30 jobs
Fane Valley Co-op has unveiled proposals for a new food processing facility at Mandeville Industrial Estate in Craigavon, Co. Armagh....
Agri-Business
DUP to withdraw from north-south arrangements
The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has said the party will withdraw from north-south arrangements with immediate effect....
Dairy
Feeder inaccuracy of up to 15% found on NI dairy farms
Out of kilter feeders could be adding up to 15% in additional feed costs with every milking, a project by...
