Rural Life
Sheep
NSA launches new survey into livestock worrying
N.Ireland
Cogent secures elite heifer calf at Redhouse Holsteins’ open day for £9,200
Arable
How do pre-emergent herbicides interact with blackgrass?
Dairy
2025 GB dairy population lowest on record – AHDB
Environment
Lake District farmers to get funding extension
Farmers and landowners in the Lake District National Park will continue to benefit from the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL)…
N.Ireland
FFA ‘fully supporting’ Oxford Farming Conference protests
Farmers For Action (FFA) said it is “fully supporting all the farm organisations involved in protesting at the Oxford Farming…
Beef
Calls for fairer prices for NI beef 30 years after 1996 BSE crisis
So what has been the direction of travel taken by Northern Ireland’s beef industry in the 30 years following the…
N.Ireland
DAERA to host awareness events for new Farm Sustainability Payment
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) will host a series of awareness events to inform farmers about…
Schemes
Farm orgs respond to SFI scheme announcements
Farming organisations across the UK have responded to yesterday’s announcements from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)…
N.Ireland
Marks & Spencer sees significant bump in food sales for Christmas
Marks & Spencer saw a bump of almost 6% on food sales on a like-for-like basis in the final quarter…
Agri-Business
France joins Ireland in decision to vote against Mercosur trade deal
France has formally announced that it has decided to vote against the proposed EU Mercosur Trade Agreement at a meeting…
N.Ireland
NI sheep farmers advised not to store wool over winter
Sheep farmers in Northern Ireland have been advised that wool stored over the autumn/winter period will only decline in terms…
N.Ireland
UFU expresses solidarity with European farmers over Mercosur deal
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has reaffirmed its support for European farmers in light of the evolving EU-Mercosur trade agreement…
N.Ireland
Eradicating bovine TB ‘remains a top priority’ – DAERA
Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference today (January 8), Minister Andrew Muir of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural…
Schemes
Defra announces SFI application windows at Oxford Farming Conference
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has unveiled the application windows for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)…
N.Ireland
AgriSearch makes new appointments to board of trustees
AgriSearch, the farmer-funded research and innovation body, has announced appointments to its board of trustees. Dr. Keith Agnew and Cormac…
Agri-Business
Knight Frank: 1ac of farmland now worth just under £8,700
The farmland market remains becalmed, but the government’s inheritance tax U-turn could boost confidence, according to a global property consultancy….