N.Ireland
The two winners of the first ever youth Angus rearing competition in Northern Ireland have decided to invest their winnings...
Farmers frequently convince themselves that their biosecurity is much better than in reality, Northern Ireland’s most senior vet has said....
The brave battle of an eight-year-old farmer’s daughter has inspired Northern Ireland’s farming community to rally together for heart disease...
A ‘super pest’ moth which is already resistant to a class of common plant protection is now also capable of...
Potato farmers say they are experiencing one of the “worst harvests ever” with many warning their crops are rotting in...
Hundreds of sheep are thought to have been stolen from a farm in south Co. Down. The sheep went missing...
A Co. Down farmer has been fined more than £5,000 after a vet had to euthanise a cow, a sheep and...
Farming families are urged to attend one of a series of meetings planned to make their businesses more resilient. Farmers...
Lettuce growers have been urged to look out for Fusarium wilt and root rot after an outbreak of the aggressive...
More than 10,000 Northern Irish cattle have been reported stolen or lost in just three years – with cross-border smuggling...
Tomorrow’s ploughing match in Hillsborough has been cancelled as a mark of respect towards Northern Ireland Ploughing Association chairman Wilson Holden....
New BSE status controls will be included on the North’s departmental animal database ‘APHIS’ to identify Negligible Risk (NR) and...
Machinery
A sizeable, unreserved auction of tractors and farm machinery – organised by Bord na Mona – took place on Saturday,...
Northern Ireland’s largest poultry processor has achieved the highest scoring level for sustainability in the Business in the Community Northern...
A new practical farming competition is giving Northern teenagers the chance to win and rear five Angus calves. The skills-based...
Agriculture has become the biggest loser in the emergency budget for Northern Ireland proposed by Secretary of State James Brokenshire....
Better profitability in agriculture would allow older farmers to retire, making room for younger stockmen and growers, lobby group Farmers...
A series of response meetings will take place in the north-west to help farmers deal with the feared fodder shortage...
