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...
US
Beef
US suspends live cattle imports from Mexico due to parasite spread
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through US ports...
Agri-Business
Danone acquires US plant-based nutritional formulas company
Danone has announced today (Monday, May 12) that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake...
Agri-Business
US Secretary of Ag to visit UK next week as farm orgs voice concerns over trade deal
The US Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, has confirmed that she plans to visit the UK next week (May 12-14)...
Pig/Poultry
Disease-resistant pigs approved for sale in US
Pigs produced to be resistant to one of the world’s most costly livestock diseases, using technology developed by the Roslin...
N.Ireland
Fair trade principle being ignored with US import tariffs – AHDB
Earlier this week, (Wednesday April 2), US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be implementing tariffs of...
N.Ireland
Milk pool caught in crosshairs of tariffs trade war – IBEC
The milk pool between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is caught in the crosshairs of a trade war...
Pig/Poultry
US makes ‘significant’ advancements to combat bird flu
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported “significant advancements” across all five areas in its recently launched strategy to...
Agri-Business
Bayer ordered to pay over $2 billion in Roundup cancer claim
A court in the US state of Georgia has ordered pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Bayer to pay over $2 billion...
Agri-Business
US National Ag Week marked with $10bn funding package for agricultural producers
The annual “National Ag Week” in the United States (US), which has just drawn to a close, was marked by...
Agri-Business
Nebraska agri data privacy bill challenges digital future
Once again it appears that the movement to have agriculture wired up to a fully digital future has been challenged,...
Machinery
Biofuel win in the US to boost ethanol and crop prices
Selling petrol in the United States is no simple task for there is a restriction applied to the fuel which...
Agri-Business
Trump announces next US agriculture secretary
US president-elect Donald Trump has announced his pick to run the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) during his next administration....
Agri-Business
E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders in US
Public health officials in the United States (US) are investigating an outbreak of E. coli infections in multiple states which have...
Machinery
Would you buy a spray drone for over €800k?
By Chris McCullough Equipped with 33ft (10m) booms and a 110gal (500L) capacity tank, the new Sprayhawk drone is being...
Rural Life
US confirms first human bird flu case without animal contact
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first US case of avian influenza (bird flu)...
Beef
Australian meat blamed for source of athletes’ positive drug tests
Chinese authorities have blamed imported Australian meat as a source which led to two of the country’s top swimmers failing...
N.Ireland
Second human case of bird flu reported in US
A second human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (bird flu) was reported by the Centers for Disease Control...
