N.Ireland
Arable
Research: Could gene-edited wheat lead to safer food?
Agri-Business
High tech robotic dogs guarding valuable corn crops
Arable
How to include potatoes in a diabetes-friendly diet
Agri-Business
M&S signs £2.1b 10-year contract with ABP and Dunbia for British meat
Arable
Importance of sulphur for crop and grassland fertiliser programmes
There is strong evidence that plant active sulphur should be included in all crop and grassland fertiliser programmes. This is…
N.Ireland
How is the NI forestry development project faring at midpoint?
Six years into the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA’s) key forestry development project for Northern Ireland, tree…
N.Ireland
DAERA opens regional food programme for applications
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced the opening of the 2026-2027 Northern Ireland Regional Food…
N.Ireland
Farmers for Action: Ireland needs less dependency on fossil fuels
The Farmers For Action (FFA) Steering Committee has said it is time for Ireland and the UK to ditch 75%…
Beef
Managing replacement suckler heifers in lead-up to breeding
Most well-run suckler herds producing replacement heifers will focus closely on the key management areas of these replacement heifers from…
Dairy
Higher milk production led to longer shelf-life products in 2025 – AHDB
Milk deliveries in the EU increased by 5.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025 year-on-year. This increased the production of…
N.Ireland
NI BCR scheme ‘undermining’ traditional grass-based systems – TUV
The environmental impact of Northern Ireland’s Beef Carbon Reduction (BCR) scheme up to this point has been questioned by Traditional…
Rural Life
Analysis: March was second warmest on record in Europe
March 2026 was globally the fourth-warmest on record, at 1.48°C above pre-industrial levels, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). C3S also…
N.Ireland
Potential to better manage Ireland’s wool output on all-island basis highlighted
Better coordination of Ireland’s wool output on an all-island basis could represent a win/win scenario for Irish sheep farmers. This…
N.Ireland
Annual report on NI rural needs monitoring published
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir has published the latest Rural Needs Annual Monitoring Report. The…
Agri-Business
Farmland prices remain stable despite market uncertainty in Q1 2026
Farmland prices in England have remained stable during the first quarter of this year due to a reported limited supply…
Machinery
Deere settles ‘right to repair’ case
Deere & Company has reached a settlement agreement to resolve the long-running court case over the ‘right to repair’. The multidistrict ‘right…
N.Ireland
New NI employment bill ‘would hit agri-food sector hard’ – UFU
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has warned that a proposed workers’ rights bill, as currently framed, “risks causing serious damage”…