A new project to reduce the environmental impact of ammonia emissions from livestock has been awarded £600k funding from the Department...
November 1, 2021
A document outlining key measures to tackle ammonia, which is likely to change the shape of Northern Irish farming, is...
March 26, 2021
Staff at an influential Stormont committee have said it has been “difficult” to get responses from an environmental planning quango...
February 19, 2021
Farmers should prepare for significant changes when it comes to ammonia emissions after Farming Minister Victoria Prentis announced plans to...
February 10, 2021
Minister Poots has defended his decision to intervene over agricultural planning issues in Northern Ireland. Shared Environmental Services (SES), a...
September 25, 2020
A series of three lunchtime webinars will explore the science behind Northern Ireland’s agricultural woes with ammonia. Run by the...
September 18, 2020
Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister and agriculture committee chairman made good on promises to meet with farmers to discuss solutions to...
August 12, 2020
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
August 8, 2020
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
August 5, 2020
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has published extensive guide into how the region’s farmers can...
May 18, 2019
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture is offering 16 dairy farmers the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands to learn about...
April 26, 2019
Genuine working partnerships must be at the heart of any plans to tackle ammonia in Northern Ireland, according to the...
December 28, 2018
December 26, 2018
A new online calculator and guidance has been developed to help farmers and others to design woodlands to capture airborne...
December 11, 2018
A new team of experts officially start today to help farmers reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture. The £3 million Catchment...
September 18, 2018
British farmers and industry experts visited the Netherlands to learn how on-farm changes have helped the country reduce its ammonia...
September 5, 2018
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for a ‘joined-up’ approach to reduce ammonia in response to Defra’s Clean Air...
August 15, 2018
A Northern Ireland farm lobby group has said that a number of “intolerable” issues and “lack of independent advice” have caused...
August 1, 2018
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