Agriland Team

Have your say on the Monitor Farm Programme
Have your say on the Monitor Farm Programme

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is calling for cereal and oilseed growers to have their say how its...

Dale Farm highlights link between silage quality and feed efficiency
Dale Farm highlights link between silage quality and feed efficiency

Dairy cooperative Dale Farm recently hosted three on-farm workshops and two evening meetings on the subject of improving silage quality...

Could you come up with the next diquat alternative?
Could you come up with the next diquat alternative?

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is inviting researchers to tender for a new project to understand alternative burn-off...

Stolen tractor found…submerged underwater
Stolen tractor found…submerged underwater

A tractor which had been reported stolen was discovered submerged in the sea in Scotland in recent days. Police in...

Dale Farm to bring Wheyhey products across Ireland
Dale Farm to bring Wheyhey products across Ireland

Dairy cooperative Dale Farm has partnered with Wheyhey – creators of naturally sugar-free, high protein ice cream and brownies –...

‘People are starting to get jittery’: Brexit nerves grow among border farms
‘People are starting to get jittery’: Brexit nerves grow among border farms

Farmers and agribusinesses on both sides of the Northern Irish border are getting increasingly concerned as a no-deal Brexit looks...

£509 million Greencore tender offer oversubscribed
£509 million Greencore tender offer oversubscribed

Greencore Group plc has announced the results of its tender offer, which it announced last month. The tender offer closed...

RB209 updated with new comprehensive advice on sulphur
RB209 updated with new comprehensive advice on sulphur

The AHDB Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) has been updated to provide further clarity on sulphur management in cereals and oilseeds...

Why is colostrum so important for the newborn calf?
Why is colostrum so important for the newborn calf?

Colostrum, also known as beestings, is the first and most important line of defence for a newborn calf. It’s crucial...

Valentine steak could win hearts and pounds for butchers
Valentine steak could win hearts and pounds for butchers

Quality Standard Mark (QSM) is calling butchers to win back shoppers in February, using cuts like the lamb valentine steak,...

Quality Meat Scotland launches ‘Go Places with Pork’ campaign
Quality Meat Scotland launches ‘Go Places with Pork’ campaign

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has launched a new campaign to inspire and encourage Scottish consumers to try adventurous new pork...

NI sheep farmers would be ‘out of business’ after no-deal
NI sheep farmers would be ‘out of business’ after no-deal

Ivor Ferguson, president of the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU), has warned that many sheep farmers in Northern Ireland would be...

Derry farmer prosecuted and fined for water pollution
Derry farmer prosecuted and fined for water pollution

A farmer from Magherafelt, Co. Derry, was today fined £750 for polluting part of the Moyola River with silage effluent....

Full house for presentation by UK chief vet
Full house for presentation by UK chief vet

The UK’s chief veterinary officer addressed a packed lecture theatre at Harper Adams University on Monday, January 21. During her...

‘Distinctive’ classic machinery worth over £100,000 stolen from farm
‘Distinctive’ classic machinery worth over £100,000 stolen from farm

Police are appealing for witnesses after “distinctive” tractors valued at over £100,000 were stolen from a farm in Yoxall, East...

AHDB opens tender for potato desiccants research project
AHDB opens tender for potato desiccants research project

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is inviting researchers to tender for a new project to understand alternative potato...

LacPatrick announces milk prices for December
LacPatrick announces milk prices for December

The board of LacPatrick has today (January 22), announced its base milk price for the month of December holding in...

Agri-tech company Lely introduces ‘Vector’ feeding system
Agri-tech company Lely introduces ‘Vector’ feeding system

Agriculture Technology company Lely is introducing a new robotic feeding system, which will be officially launched next month. The ‘Vector’...