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...
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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...
Agri-Business
Latest round of EFS agreements issued
Approximately 160 Higher and 370 Wider offers will be issued as part of the fourth tranche of the Environmental Farming...
Agri-Business
New board member appointed to the Livestock and Meat Commission
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots MLA has announced the appointment of a new board member to the Livestock and...
Environment
Farmers recognise their role in reducing emissions, says UFU
Following the release of the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) sixth carbon budget, the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) says that reducing...
Agri-Business
New ‘Beacon Farm Network’ to include 50 NI farms
Northern Ireland agricultural research body AgriSearch has warned farmers they must develop ways to prove and communicate their sustainability credentials...
Agri-Business
2020 NI animal inventory to be carried out online
The Annual Animal Inventories will be completed entirely online this year due to Covid-19, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister admitted to hospital
Northern Ireland Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots is recovering in hospital following emergency surgery on Sunday (December...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister admitted to hospital
Northern Ireland Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots is recovering in hospital following emergency surgery on Sunday (December...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister admitted to hospital
Northern Ireland Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots is recovering in hospital following emergency surgery on Sunday (December...
N.Ireland
NI farmers to receive £3.6 million in reimbursement payments from the EU
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced that Northern Ireland farmers are to receive a total of £3.6 million...
N.Ireland
Avian Influenza Prevention Zone to be declared in Northern Ireland from midnight
An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) will come into effect in Nothern Ireland from midnight tonight (December 1). The AIPZ...
Environment
NI Water pledges to plant 1 million trees in 10 years
Northern Ireland’s second-largest landowner, NI Water, has pledged to plant one million trees over the next 10 years. The large-scale...
Agri-Business
Peat slide: Ministers ‘shocked’ at devastation as cross-border response group visits site
Ministers Poots and McConalogue were shocked to see the devastation caused by a peat slide that has polluted the Mourne Beg...
N.Ireland
CAP issues discussed at North South Ministerial Council meeting
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue, attended the Agriculture Sectoral meeting of the North South Ministerial...
N.Ireland
Calls for urgent TB roundtable talks as FFA warns ‘farmers have suffered enough’
Farmers For Action has warned Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture not to use Brexit transition deadlines as “an excuse” to...
Agri-Business
NI farmers to be repaid EU Crisis Reserve money by the end of December
Northern Ireland farmers are set to see a Christmas boost to their bank accounts as the Department of Agriculture, Environment...
