Agriland Team

Mart trade: 80 entered for Limousin spring sale
Mart trade: 80 entered for Limousin spring sale

A total of 80 animals – including 64 bulls and 16 females – have been entered for next week’s Limousin...

Classic corner: Restored Muir-Hill back from retirement in Co. Kerry
Classic corner: Restored Muir-Hill back from retirement in Co. Kerry

Ford and Fordson tractors were very often the basis for conversions by engineering firms that felt they could add something...

Reactor fraud: Illegal TB tag swapping suspected in the North
Reactor fraud: Illegal TB tag swapping suspected in the North

Some “selfish” owners of TB reactor cattle have been suspected of swapping ear tags in a bid to get rid...

Confusion risks NI being shoehorned into English farm policies
Confusion risks NI being shoehorned into English farm policies

Northern Ireland risks seeing major agricultural policies designed with rural England in mind shoe-horned into its post-Brexit legislation, Queen’s University...

Masons to double production capacity with new blending plant
Masons to double production capacity with new blending plant

One of Northern Ireland’s largest compounders is set to more than double its production capacity with a new plant, AgriLand...

Nature organisation blames CAP for ‘biodiversity decline’
Nature organisation blames CAP for ‘biodiversity decline’

An environmental lobby group has called for Northern Ireland’s future agricultural subsidies to ditch the notion of rewarding intensive food...

Grass: 6 tips for managing the swing from shortage to excess
Grass: 6 tips for managing the swing from shortage to excess

With grass growth expected to rapidly accelerate, senior advisors at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) are...

Michel Barnier to meet with small businesses on cross-border tour
Michel Barnier to meet with small businesses on cross-border tour

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, is set to visit Newry, Derry and Dungannon as part of a...

Glarryford clinches top club title at young farmers’ AGM
Glarryford clinches top club title at young farmers’ AGM

A Co. Antrim club has clinched this year’s Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster (YFCU) Club of the Year title at...

World’s top female chef grew up on Antrim farm
World’s top female chef grew up on Antrim farm

A 39-year-old woman who grew up on a farm near Bushmills in Co. Antrim has been named the best female...

AFBI to present profit-based research findings at major dairy open day
AFBI to present profit-based research findings at major dairy open day

The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) is set to hold a major dairy open day at its Hillsborough research site...

Poll results: 1 in 5 still haven’t got their cows out
Poll results: 1 in 5 still haven’t got their cows out

A poll carried out by AgriLand shows that almost a fifth of dairy farmers who voted have still not been...

McGlone: ‘Brexiteers cannot be trusted to act for Ag’
McGlone: ‘Brexiteers cannot be trusted to act for Ag’

SDLP rural affairs spokesman Patsy McGlone MLA has said that the labour struggle that farmers could face after the UK...

Northern police officers given livestock training
Northern police officers given livestock training

Police officers in Newry and south Armagh have been given livestock training so they can become better equipped to deal...

Why meat’s packaging could be about to change
Why meat’s packaging could be about to change

Meat packaging could see big changes over the next seven years as meat processing giant ABP has vowed to cut...

Former Ulster farming president Ian Marshall to take seat in Seanad
Former Ulster farming president Ian Marshall to take seat in Seanad

Co. Armagh farmer Ian Marshall has been elected to the Irish Seanad in today’s by-election. Markethill man Marshall was put...

GrassCheck: Growth set to exceed 10-year average
GrassCheck: Growth set to exceed 10-year average

After a disappointing start to the season, Northern Ireland’s grass growth is set to exceed the 10-year average, according to...

Classic corner: 1990s Lamborghini back to its former glory in Co. Fermanagh
Classic corner: 1990s Lamborghini back to its former glory in Co. Fermanagh

The difference between Lamborghini and Same is often considered to be no more than the colour scheme. That’s an understandable...