Richard Halleron

News Correspondent

Richard Halleron is an agricultural chemist by background. He is a past chairman of the Northern Ireland Institute of Agricultural Science and has also served as Chairman of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists in Northern Ireland.

N.Ireland

UFU to ramp up the resource it throws at Brexit negotiations

The Ulster Farmers’ Union will draw up its Brexit policy shopping list over the coming weeks, according to the organisation’s...

January 27, 2017

N.Ireland

Farmers in the North must assume the era of direct subsidies is ending

Farmers in Northern Ireland will have to brace themselves for a change regarding the way subsidies are made available to...

January 25, 2017

Beef

‘Good soil management is key to securing optimal grassland yields’

Good soil management is the key to securing optimal grassland yields, according to Welsh agronomist Gareth Davies. Soil is made...

January 25, 2017

Beef

Farmers run into BVD testing problems in Northern Ireland

Farmers must check that they have paid the required level of postage on calf tissue samples sent for BVD testing,...

January 23, 2017

Beef

Beef conformation on the decline in Northern Ireland

The conformation scores achieved by prime cattle kill during the final quarter of 2016 generally declined from the corresponding period...

January 22, 2017

Dairy

No SMP sold at third tender event – offers below minimum price set

Prices offered at the third skimmed milk powder (SMP) public intervention tender last week ranged from €155/100kg to €190/100kg. These were...

January 22, 2017

Rural Life

Underground North-South Interconnector ‘may be the cheapest option’

Members of the North East Pylon Group (NEPP) are claiming that it will be cheaper to put the North-South Interconnector...

January 21, 2017

Sheep

Quintuplets born to Charollais ewe on Tyrone farm

This week saw a pedigree Charollais ewe give birth to quintuplets on the north Tyrone farm of the Foster family....

January 20, 2017

N.Ireland

‘Election in the North will result in the drying up of funding streams for farming’

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone believes the imminent collapse of the Stormont Executive and a subsequent election will result in the...

January 16, 2017

Opinion

Cross compliance and farm safety should be formally linked

Both ICSA and ICMSA have taken a wholly unacceptable position, where farm safety is concerned. The past week has seen...

January 14, 2017

Arable

Why farmers should keep to a maximum speed of 10km/hr when spraying crops

Keeping to a maximum speed of 10km/hr and maintaining a boom height of 50cm to 75cm when spraying crops was...

January 13, 2017

Arable

Brome grass becoming a ‘major grassland weed problem’ on tillage farms

Brome grass, in all its manifestations, is becoming a major grassland weed problem on tillage farms throughout the island of...

January 11, 2017

N.Ireland

Election uncertainty confronts agriculture in Northern Ireland

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) sources have confirmed that Northern Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Michelle McIlveen, will continue in office until...

January 11, 2017

Agri-Business