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Payments totalling £16.5 million to participants in the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) have commenced, Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced. The…
Stormont’s Department for the Economy has begun the process of developing a new energy strategy, which will see the Northern Ireland energy sector…
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture (DAERA) is seeking the best examples of environmentally-friendly farms to join its new Technology Demonstration Farm network. It…
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has come out in support of a proposed bill to reintroduce an Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) payment…
Northern Ireland’s agri-food stakeholders must accept the industry’s influence on the environment has “not always been positive” attendees at AFBI’s Scientific Outlook conference…
A new partnership will fund training for packaging technologists in Northern Ireland in a drive to find more sustainable alternatives to single-use plastics.…
Farmers For Action has written to Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister calling for a firm date for when the region’s bovine TB eradication plan…
Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) stalwart Libby Clarke has been presented with one of the organisation’s highest honours. The prestigious President’s Plate recognises…
Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Committee has passed on the findings of its review of the Independent Panel process to the Minister of Agriculture. Concerns…
The driver of a car which was being tracked by members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was arrested after a…
A pair of lambs which had been missing for three days were rescued by firefighters from a 12m (39ft) mine shaft in Northern…
A 2020 survey carried out in the UK has confirmed that one in three dairy farmers do not fully implement biosecurity protocols. The…
Using data from the world’s longest-running experiment – the Rothamsted Research Broadbalk wheat trial in Hertfordshire in the UK – the researchers found that, on…
Northern Ireland’s Health Minister Robin Swann has announced £1 million of new funding for the region’s air ambulance. It comes as the charity…
Cases of H5N8 avian influenza have been detected in broiler chickens at a commercial premises near Uttoxeter, east Staffordshire, England, just days before…
One environmental issue on the horizon is climate change and how dairy farms can reduce their carbon footprint. Brian Finch, an agri-environment advisor…
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) has announced losses of almost £1 million at its Annual Meeting held today (Friday, March 26). The year…
Plans for an independent Environment Protection Agency in Northern Ireland have been put on the back burner until the next Programme for Government.…
