Environment
Video: Two dogs have lucky escape after they're overcome by slurry fumes
Two dogs on a farm in Northern Ireland had a lucky escape recently, after they were overcome by fumes from...
Environment
Two dogs on a farm in Northern Ireland had a lucky escape recently, after they were overcome by fumes from...
N.Ireland
A woman is understood to be in critical condition after she was attacked by cattle while out walking her dog...
Opinion
This week the farming community has been rocked by three farm deaths within days of each other. Two men died...
Rural Life
You hope that a farm accident never happens to you and then all of a sudden it does, Angela Hogan,...
Beef
Farmers must realise that they need to look after themselves when dealing with livestock. Livestock related accidents accounted for 22% of...
Machinery
Tractor and machinery safety features heavily in the entries for this year’s BT Young Scientist Exhibition, which takes place on...
Opinion
If there is one thing every farmer should do for 2016 is promise themselves and their families that they will...
Environment
Over the last five years, 12 people have suffered a fatal accident arising from the use of chainsaws or tree felling...
Rural Life
Drowning and gas poisoning are the two major health and safety problems when it comes to slurry. Drowning is the...
Other
FBD is asking people to nominate their Champion for Change, as part of the FBD Champions for Change programme –...
N.Ireland
Between 1968 and November 2015 there’s been 485 farming-related deaths in Northern Ireland, Malcolm Downey of the Health and Safety Executive...
Rural Life
With winter comes colder weather, often freezing in Ireland, therefore it is important to ensure that all machinery on the...
N.Ireland
An eight-year-old boy who fell from a tractor in Co. Antrim on Monday morning is now ‘stable‘ in hospital, a...
Beef
With winter on the way; it’s time to carry out a last minute check on winter housing for livestock. Keep...
Opinion
When non-farming people hear of a 13-year-old driving a tractor on a public road, they find it crazy that such...
Rural Life
Some 76% of farmers drove a tractor for the first time before they were 12 years old, according to an...
Rural Life
With a 13-year-old boy stopped by Northern police for driving a tractor under the legal age limit it’s important to...
Rural Life
Both a father and son have been reported to the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland after the 13-year-old boy was...