Agri-Business
Measures to fight food fraud are working, says Commission
A second round of coordinated pan-European testing for horse meat DNA in beef products was launched in April this year....
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Agri-Business
Farm Improvement Scheme will be crucial to Northern farmers - UFU
The new Farm Business Improvement Scheme will be crucial and attractive to many farmers in Northern Ireland according to UFU President...
Agri-Business
Farm Improvement Scheme will be crucial to Northern farmers – UFU
The new Farm Business Improvement Scheme will be crucial and attractive to many farmers in Northern Ireland according to UFU President...
Agri-Business
Farm Improvement Scheme will be crucial to Northern farmers – UFU
The new Farm Business Improvement Scheme will be crucial and attractive to many farmers in Northern Ireland according to UFU President...
N.Ireland
High demand for quality assured lambs in Northern Ireland
Lamb throughput in the Northern Ireland plants has been very strong in recent weeks with favourable production conditions during 2014 to date...
Other
Two deaths last week brings farm deaths to 16
In the same week as National Farm Safety Day, two farm deaths have occurred, including the death of Offaly’s U-21...
Arable
UK wheat harvest underway
The first of this year’s UK winter wheat crop was harvested this week on land farmed by Andrew Tetlow (AET...
Agri-Business
Food fraud continues with no lamb in some lamb kebabs, new FSAI survey finds
New surveys find no horse DNA in beef, but fraud persists in the fast food industry, with some lamb kebabs...
Environment
Government views as important as scientific evidence on GMOs, says Juncker
The new President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is to review current EU legislation in the area of Genetically...
Beef
Coveney meeting Northern counterpart today on ‘nomad’ cattle
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney is meeting his Northern counterpart, Michelle O’Neill, today to discuss...
Arable
Good EU-28 cereal yields predicted
The EU Commission’s crop monitoring unit (MARS) recently released a positive outlook for EU-28 cereal yields. It forecasts that average...
Beef
UK economic recovery to help beef prices
There are signs that the economic recovery in the UK is accelerating and consumer confidence improving according to EBLEX. This...
Machinery
New Claas swather compact on the road and flexible in the field
Along with many improved details, the new Claas Liner 3600, 800 and 700 swathers are characterised by their innovative ideas...
Beef
US beef production damages the environment according to new study
Beef production in the US is damaging to the environment, a new study has found. The study states that US...
N.Ireland
UFU challenges retailers on lamb sourcing
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has written to a number of major retailers challenging their lamb sourcing policies, following their lack...
Dairy
Shortening dairy cows' gestation by 10 days
In a world-first, New Zealand’s Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) has released a new genetics solution which will shorten the period...
Arable
Getting grain sampling right, at each stage
The Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) in the UK is reminding tillage farmers that, with harvest getting underway across the...
Beef
Surge in Irish beef keeps pressure on UK prices
The combination of more cattle coming forward and higher carcass weights resulted in the highest year-on-year increase in Irish beef...
