Environment
UFU to attend COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has confirmed that he will attend the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow on...
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Agri-Business
UFU urges DAERA to act over NI’s pig sector pressures
Shoppers could see fewer of their favourite pork products on supermarket shelves this Christmas, while farmers struggle to cope with...
N.Ireland
Rank and file farmers support UFU policy priorities
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has confirmed that the broad swathe of farmers in Northern Ireland fully support...
Environment
UFU offers training for slurry contractors amid concern licensing could be introduced
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has announced plans to hold two online training sessions to inform slurry contractors about several...
Environment
Peatlands Strategy: UFU warns against funding bog rewetting plans from direct payments budget
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has aired its concerns over the economic effects of rewetting peatland in Northern Ireland as...
N.Ireland
‘Where’s the cows daddy?’ UFU tells of farmers’ heartbreak over bovine TB
The chilling psychological effects of bovine TB have left some farmers unable to even enter their own yards, according to...
Agri-Business
UFU sets out its stance on NI’s new Agricultural Policy Framework
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has welcomed the department's proposed Future Agricultural Policy Framework Portfolio as a "step in the...
Agri-Business
Farmers must debate NI’s bovine TB plans, says UFU
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is urging farmers to take a "hard look" at Northern Ireland's proposed bovine TB (bTB)...
Beef
UFU president defends badger culling in TB strategy
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has taken to the BBC airwaves in order to defend the validity of...
Environment
UFU tells Ag Committee Climate Change Bill 1 would be ‘more detrimental than any trade deal’
Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has slammed targets set in the private member's Climate Change Bill as "complete...
N.Ireland
Significant lamb price drop in NI is ‘very unreasonable’ – UFU
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is very frustrated that sheep processing factories have dropped base lamb quotes by over £0.60/kg...
Environment
Poots announces 2 further EFS tranches on UFU president’s farm
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots announced he has secured funding for a fifth and sixth tranche of the Environmental...
N.Ireland
UFU fully supports Kendall review of farming and food sectors
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is fully supporting the work to be undertaken by the Farming and Food Review Group,...
N.Ireland
UFU threatens to end cooperation with department over ‘TB inaction’
Tensions were said to have "run very high" during a meeting this week between the chief vet Ulster Farmers’ Union...
N.Ireland
UFU calls for clarity on autumn cereal seed availability
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) deputy president, William Irvine, alongside industry representatives from Fane Valley, Agrii and DBS Farm Supplies, are...
N.Ireland
UFU rules out drive-in AGM for 2021
The Ulster Farmer's Union (UFU) is understood to have ruled out plans for another drive-in AGM, despite its success in...
Beef
LMC and UFU join forces for 2021 Northern Ireland Beef Week
The Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) has teamed up with the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) to celebrate Northern Ireland’s world-class...
Environment
UFU not consulted on new energy plans for Northern Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) deputy president David Brown has expressed concern that his organisation had not been consulted on the...
