N.Ireland
This time last year the Sloss family’s lives changed forever when Co. Tyrone dairy farmer Alistair Sloss was killed in...
Northern Ireland Holstein breeders impressed judges at the weekend’s All-Britain All-Breeds Calf Show in Malvern, Worcestershire. The region’s team of around...
Machinery
Concerns over new criteria for road-worthiness testing of ‘fast’ tractors will be addressed at a meeting between department officials, and...
Tuberculosis (TB) rates have hit their worst level in Northern Ireland in more than a decade, the latest figures reveal....
The repair bill for ex-hurricane Ophelia could hit up to £10 million, rural insurer NFU Mutual has estimated. The firm...
Agri-Business
Profits are down at Northern Ireland egg giant Skea Egg Farms despite an increase in sales, its latest accounts show....
The dairy industry in Northern Ireland needs to debate innovative changes as to how farmers are paid for milk, according...
UK cereal farmers are being urged to proactively plan for Brexit and not to “wait and see” what happens. Tillage...
Ulster braced itself for the worst, but by the time Ophelia reached the northern counties she had lost much of...
Discs, drills and sprayers were what most farmers were enquiring about at Lemken’s tillage demo day, held in association with...
A text service has been launched to keep poultry farmers and bird keepers updated with the latest avian influenza threats....
A Crossmaglen farmer involved in fuel laundering has had £15,571 (€17,518) confiscated in court after 127t of domestic and commercial waste...
New Holland has notched up a silver medal at the upcoming Agritechnica show for its “pro-active and automatic” combine setting...
A meat industry, heavy-weight who once directed one of the island’s largest meat firms, has ventured out on his own...
A major poultry conference encouraging Northern farmers to keep ahead of the industry’s challenges is set to take place next...
Two Co. Tyrone farmers have been hospitalised, and three animals have died, in a slurry accident just hours before this...
Access to finance, land and maintaining cross-border relationships are some of the biggest challenges the island’s Anaerobic Digestion (AD) industry will...
Northern farmers have been given an eleventh hour reprieve from the slurry ban with the ‘reasonable excuse‘ clause in the Nitrates...
