Rural Life
Agriland counts down our 10 favourite farming ads
How many farming ads for scour treatments for cattle and or doses for sheep can you remember from your childhood?...
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Agri-Business
Sterling weakens again as Bank of England cuts interest rates
Sterling moved lower yesterday as the Bank of England cut interest rates in an attempt to counteract a looming recession...
Dairy
TB is not spread from badgers to cattle through direct contact - Study
Badgers prefer land more than 50m from cattle and TB is more than likely spread between the two species in...
Machinery
New short-straw feature added to Krone's Big Pack baler range
Krone – the German machinery manufacturer has added a new feature to its popular range of Big Pack balers. The...
Dairy
June milk production decreases year-on-year in Northern Ireland
In June 2016, some 204.29m litres of milk was produced in Northern Ireland, which is a 5.2% drop in milk...
Dairy
June milk production decreases year-on-year in Northern Ireland
In June 2016, some 204.29m litres of milk was produced in Northern Ireland, which is a 5.2% drop in milk...
Dairy
Dairy processors urged to pass on market gains to farmers in tough financial year
Dairy product prices rose by over 6% at the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction and the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has...
N.Ireland
North's beef farmers making £50 less than UK farmers on 380kg carcasses
Over the past month, the price differential between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for R3 grade cattle...
Arable
Amazing footage shows four Claas combines working together for the harvest
Harvest 2016 is in full swing across Europe as well as here in Ireland and the footage below shows four Claas...
N.Ireland
Silage effluent suspected of causing a major fish kill in Northern Ireland
Silage effluent is the suspected cause of more than 1,000 fish dying in a river near Claudy, Co. Derry, according...
Environment
Silage effluent suspected of causing a major fish kill in Northern Ireland
Silage effluent is the suspected cause of more than 1,000 fish dying in a river near Claudy, Co. Derry, according...
Dairy
Offers of SMP to public intervention begin to stabilise
Quantities of skimmed milk powder (SMP) offered into the public intervention system have started to stabilise, the latest figures from...
Agri-Business
Government to fund new research on TB in cattle and the causes of the Fodder Crisis
A new multi-million euro research project to breed cattle with enhanced disease resistance is among a number of major research...
Agri-Business
Kerry Group revenues steady despite challenging market conditions
Kerry Group revenue was broadly unchanged over the first half of the year at €3 billion reflecting good volume growth...
World News
New rules to come into force in the US as Obama signs GMO labelling bill into law
The US President, Barack Obama, last week signed into law a GMO labelling bill which will require food which contains...
Dairy
'Dairy markets are starting to wake up to rapidly tightening global supply'
Following yesterday’s positive Global Dairy Trade auction, dairy markets are starting to wake up to rapidly tightening global supply, Nathan...
Arable
Straw price on the increase as 'high demand' drives the trade
There is a particularly strong demand for straw this year with prices up by €2-3/bale on last year, according to...
Opinion
Opinion: Farm deaths will continue to happen as long as we think they won't happen to us
This week the farming community has been rocked by three farm deaths within days of each other. Two men died...