N.Ireland
Slatted or dry bedded housing for sheep: What questions do I need to ask myself before deciding?
They may not be the most common sight on sheep farms, but they are becoming more popular…and that is slatted...
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Beef
Have you tested your building’s airflow?
The supply of fresh air within livestock housing is critical to ensure good health and maximum performance from housed livestock...
Dairy
Preventing mastitis in early lactation
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, it causes the swelling of the cow’s udder tissue...
Agri-Business
New development officer appointed at the LAA
At one of the most exciting and crucial periods for the UK livestock industry, the Livestock Auctioneers’ Association (LAA) has...
Sheep
Hill farmers seeing the benefit of monitoring flock performance
Hill farmers in Wales have seen ample benefits after only a year of being part of a major research project...
N.Ireland
Restrictions on movements to NI ‘will be life changing’ – UK sheep farmers
The National Sheep Association (NSA) in the UK has said it is “outraged” by the situation faced by sheep breeders...
Agri Politics
IFA and NFU meet to discuss latest Brexit developments
The president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Tim Cullinan, and the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Minette...
Agri Politics
2021 will bring 'big decisions' for farm tenants - TFA
The Tenant Farmers Association’s (TFA’s) national chairman, Mark Coulman, has said that 2021 will be a year for big decisions...
Agri-Business
Christine Tacon appointed new chair of Red Tractor
Christine Tacon CBE has been appointed chair of Assured Food Standards who operate the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. The former...
Agri-Business
‘Agriculture must produce more food’ – former NFU president
Former National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and World Farming Organisation (WFO) president Peter Kendall believes that agriculture’s direct response to the...
Agri Politics
Brexit tariffs 'would have severe ramifications for long-term future of British farming'
The government’s new import tariff regime will provide certainty for farmers by largely maintaining import tariffs at present levels, the...
Beef
Shipping finished cattle north for slaughter will be a tariff-free option post Brexit
Northern Ireland’s farm minister Edwin Poots has confirmed that Irish cattle imported into the north can be slaughtered there and...
Agri-Business
NFU holds virtual banking forum centered around the transition to net zero
Lending appetite from the UK’s biggest banks hasn’t changed despite Covid-19 fears, with the financial institutions now also helping to...
Agri-Business
Joint agri-food research funding programme between DAFM and DAERA launched
A joint Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) research...
Beef
What is Johne’s disease?
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle and other ruminants for which there is currently no cure. Johne’s is...
Agri-Business
DAERA to launch pilot payment scheme for protein crops
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture has announced plans to launch a pilot payment scheme for local growers to produce protein...
Agri-Business
£292.7 million issued in Direct Payments in NI
More than 99% of farmers in Northern Ireland have received their full Direct Payment for 2020, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots...
N.Ireland
Avian influenza housing order to come into force in Northern Ireland
New housing measures are to be introduced as part of the avian influenza prevention zone in Northern Ireland from December...