N.Ireland
DAERA facing £22.8 million in funding gaps
Senior department officials in Northern Ireland have warned of gaping holes in DAERA’s funding for the year ahead. The department’s...
N.Ireland
Environment
Lyons urges public to have their say on NI’s environment governance issues
Environment Minister Gordon Lyons today encouraged industry stakeholders to take an active role in shaping Northern Ireland’s approach to environmental...
N.Ireland
Marshall believes unionist background could prove beneficial in Seanad
Former Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Ian Marshall believes that his potential re-election to Seanad Éireann will help to improve...
N.Ireland
Aid package for wool discussed in Northern Ireland
Representatives from the farmers’ cooperative Ulster Wool, the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) and the National Sheep Association (NSA) have met...
Agri-Business
Slump in EU sales of UK cream knocks British cream prices
Moves by EU foodservice and manufacturing customers to shun UK cream have already begun to knock butterfat prices in Britain....
Arable
Webinar to explore practicalities of protein crops for NI dairy sector
The practicalities of growing protein crops are set to come under debate as part of an event informing farmers about...
Dairy
Accelerated milk replacer rates will boost calves’ life-long milking ability
According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) dairy advisor Gary Duffy, accelerated calf replacer feeding rates can...
Agri-Business
Lyons announces £1 million micro food business scheme
A £1 million capital grant scheme to help existing micro food and drink manufacturing businesses to upscale production to secure...
Beef
Work begins to secure the inclusion of Northern Ireland in grass-fed PGI
The Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) is heading up a group of stakeholder bodies that have been charged with the...
Agri-Business
NI young farmer named as NEWBIE Award finalist
A Northern Ireland young farmer with a focus on increasing his milk from forage has made the final three of...
N.Ireland
Sheep management: Taking action quickly when it comes to thinner ewes
For March-lambing flocks, it is important farmers keep an eye on their ewes’ body condition over the coming weeks. If...
N.Ireland
Sheep, sucklers and saving lives… all in a day’s work for one Fermanagh farmer
By Rodney Magowan David Sheridan farms across several holdings around Letterbreen and Florencecourt in Co. Fermanagh with some further acreage...
Dairy
Dairy advice: Steps you can take to avoid mastitis
The easiest way to prevent clinical or sub-clinical mastitis cases is through good milking practices. Mastitis is the most economically challenging...
Dairy
Winter milk: Reviewing late season feeding
A recent report by Michael Garvey, a dairy development adviser, with the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE),...
Arable
NI’s protein crops payment to begin in time for 2021 scheme year
Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons has announced the introduction of a pilot payment scheme for protein crops will begin in time...
N.Ireland
Ballymoney Show becomes the first of NI’s summer shows to cancel for 2021
Ballymoney Show has become the first of the summer shows to cancel in Northern Ireland for 2021. The event, which...
N.Ireland
Local avian influenza restrictions lifted around 2 outbreak farms in NI
Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons has announced that the local Surveillance Zones around the two commercial poultry farms where Highly Pathogenic...
Agri-Business
The price of low-cost: Irish food chain systems accused of ‘perpetuating rural poverty’
The modern low-cost food system “perpetuates rural poverty”, a Northern Ireland based rural development academic and lobbyist has warned. Rural...
