Dairy
Contagious animal disease detected in France for first time
An outbreak of contagious lumpy skin disease (LSD) has been confirmed for the first time in France yesterday, June 29,...
Beef
Agri-Business
Initiative to improve livestock market transparency in Australia
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has launched two new livestock market indicators in a bid to improve livestock market transparency....
Agri-Business
RSPCA praises plans to consider animal product labelling reforms
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is welcoming the government’s plans to look at reforming...
N.Ireland
Three is a lucky number for some at Armagh Show 2025
It is not often that a commercial beef animal makes all the headlines. But such was the case at this...
N.Ireland
AgriSearch launches NI beef and sheep farmer survey
AgriSearch is currently inviting beef and sheep farmers in Northern Ireland to take part in a major new survey. The...
N.Ireland
CAFRE models cutting ammonia emissions on beef & sheep farms
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)...
Beef
Rabobank: Uncertainty for global beef markets
Global cattle markets have all been trending higher in the first half of 2025, according to a recent RaboResearch report....
N.Ireland
US audits to ensure UK red meat market access
With international trade increasingly making headlines, an industry expert has reiterated the importance of safeguarding market access for the UK...
Dairy
Report challenges assumptions about livestock impact
A new report from the Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) challenges the current assumption that meat and dairy products from livestock...
Rural Life
Watch: Farmer Phil’s calves jump for joy with space hoppers
Farmer and internet sensation, Philip Stewart, aka ‘Farmer Phil’, has introduced a novel source of calf enrichment on his Longford...
Agri-Business
FAO: Meat Price Index up 3.2% in March
The benchmark measure of world food commodity prices increased in April, driven by higher quotations for major cereals, meat and...
Beef
Emergency TB summit ‘not before time’ – TD
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Agriculture, Deputy Martin Kenny, has said that the agriculture minister’s decision to call a summit to...
N.Ireland
Young Irish and UK delegates travel to World Angus Forum in Oz
Over the course of the next week, the World Angus Forum is taking place in Australia and a team of...
Rural Life
Husband and wife sentenced after breaching animal welfare order
Two farmers from Orcheston, near Salisbury have been sentenced at Salisbury Magistrates Court after previously being found guilty of animal...
N.Ireland
Modern dairy cow output equal to ’19 finished cattle’ – vet
A Co. Antrim veterinarian has likened the modern dairy cow to a thoroughbred racehorse in terms of her metabolic ability...
N.Ireland
Beef Week 2025 to champion NI produce
Today (Wednesday, April 23) marks the start of Beef Week 2025, a marketing campaign that aims to shine a spotlight...
N.Ireland
$27.4m genetics initiative will breed low-methane emitting cattle
Scientists and breeders across the globe have joined forces on a new $27.4 million ‘Global Methane Genetics Initiative’ designed to...
Agri-Business
BSAS Conference: Brazil ‘not destroying forestry’ for agriculture
“It’s not true that we are destroying forestry and vegetation” – this was the message from Prof. Dr. Lucio Francelino...
