Beef
NI farmers warned All-Ireland PGI ‘may not be practical’
Officials are claiming it “may not be practical” to include Northern Ireland in plans for Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status...
UFU
Agri-Business
NI farmers urged to avail of UK self-employment scheme
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has encouraged members whose businesses have been affected by Covid-19 to apply for the second...
Agri-Business
NI farmers urged to avail of UK self-employment scheme
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has encouraged members whose businesses have been affected by Covid-19 to apply for the second...
Agri-Business
EFS grants: Farmers urged to be aware of what they are agreeing to
Northern Ireland farmers considering signing up to the latest round of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) are urged to be mindful...
Agri-Business
NI Agriculture Minister and agri committee chairman visit Antrim farms and bogland
Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister and agriculture committee chairman made good on promises to meet with farmers to discuss solutions to...
Agri-Business
NI agriculture minister and agri committee chairman visit Antrim farms and bogland
Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister and agriculture committee chairman made good on promises to meet with farmers to discuss solutions to...
Agri-Business
Calls for Northern Ireland environmental planning quango to be disbanded
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
Agri-Business
Calls for Northern Ireland environmental planning quango to be disbanded
Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chesnutt has called for an environmental planning quango, which effectively stalled agricultural planning applications in...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
Agri-Business
Glenelly Valley flood farmers: ‘We are as much value as the Primark fire businesses’
Tyrone farmers whose businesses were devastated by flash flooding three years ago say they feel “let down” by empty promises...
Agri-Business
Poots rejects ammonia threshold at the centre of NI’s agricultural planning row
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
Agri-Business
Poots rejects ammonia threshold at the centre of NI’s agricultural planning row
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has refused to accept a decision made by an environmental quango to lower...
Agri-Business
Farmers warned ‘HSENI could close marts at any time’
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has warned farmers that the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) could order...
Agri-Business
Farmers warned ‘HSENI could close marts at any time’
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has warned farmers that the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) could order...
Agri-Business
TB: Minister Poots hints at plans to propose NI badger cull in the autumn
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots set out plans to formally include “wildlife intervention” in a new bovine TB...
Agri-Business
TB: Minister Poots hints at plans to propose NI badger cull in the autumn
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots set out plans to formally include “wildlife intervention” in a new bovine TB...
N.Ireland
New UFU president: Let’s make common sense common again
There was an element of bravado at the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) AGM today (July 25) as newly-elected president Victor Chestnutt...
