N.Ireland
Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’
By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis...
N.Ireland
By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis...
Agri-Business
Key nutrient paperwork deadlines have been extended until April 30 in Northern Ireland, Minister Edwin Poots has confirmed. Farmers will now...
Agri-Business
All TB testing will cease in Northern Ireland with immediate effect, the region’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has announced. In...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots has urged all farmers and agents to continue to submit their...
N.Ireland
DAERA Minister Edwin Poots has announced the appointment of Mrs. Roberta Brownlee as the new deputy chairman of the Board...
Agri-Business
A new, extended telephone service has been set up by Northern Ireland Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots to avoid delays in...
Agri-Business
All routine farm inspections will be paused until 30 April 2020, Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has confirmed...
Arable
Growers in Northern Ireland have been granted a derogation to the crop diversification requirement of the Basic Payment Scheme for...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland farmers have been urged to make contingency plans for their farms in case they are infected with Covid-19...
Agri-Business
Departmental farm inspections and testing for bovine TB are set to continue in Northern Ireland, despite extreme lockdown measures across...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s agricultural college – CAFRE – has ceased all face-to-face teaching and education programmes. The decision was made by DAERA...
Forestry
DAERA’s largest ever public tree planting event took place on Monday, March 9, as around 400 school pupils planted 1,000...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister has announced that Tranches 3 and 4 of the delayed Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) will now proceed...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots told students at CAFRE’s annual agri-food careers event that the sector needs to retain...
Environment
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots MLA has pledged to help tackle climate change by planting 18 million trees over...
Rural Life
Open Farm Weekend has announced that Bank of Ireland (BOI) is continuing its title sponsorship of the province-wide agri-food initiative....
N.Ireland
A new piece of kit at Greenmount College could make young safer tractor drivers – before they even set foot...
Environment
The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted in favour of declaring a climate emergency and has called for the establishment of...