N.Ireland
Irish PGI application will also cover Northern Ireland
Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has confirmed that the country's application to the European Commission...
Beef
Agri-Business
FAO report: Price drop in cereals but price rise in meat and dairy
The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture...
N.Ireland
Beef Focus: Measuring methane on 380ac research farm
Bromstead Farm is a mixed grassland and arable farm located in Shropshire and is a beef research farm for ABP...
Beef
See inside ‘the world’s first’ carbon-neutral beef factory
With 16 UK locations and over 12,000 farmer-suppliers based in the UK, ABP Food Group is a major beef processor...
N.Ireland
New BVD requirements for cattle exported from NI to ROI
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) wishes to remind exporters moving cattle to the Republic of Ireland...
Beef
Calls for DAERA to introduce further measures to eradicate BVD
Animal Health and Welfare NI (AHWNI) has called on the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to introduce...
Agri-Business
ABP announces appointment of non-executive director to board
ABP Food Group (ABP) has today (Tuesday, July 5) announced the appointment of Sharon Whitehead to the board of the...
Agri-Business
ABP flies 26 students to Belgium for study tour
26 pupils and their teachers from six Northern Irish schools were in Belgium this week for a farm to fork...
Agri-Business
Welsh beef and lamb exports increasing in 2022
Trade figures for the first four months of 2022, analysed in the latest monthly market bulletin by Hybu Cig Cymru...
Agri-Business
Spiraling costs are forcing farmers to change food production plans
Spiraling costs are forcing Britain’s farmers to make significant changes to their food production plans, with some facing the prospect...
Government
Wales: Consultation launched on BVD-eradication scheme
A consultation on a proposal to introduce a compulsory scheme to eradicate Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in Wales has been...
Agri-Business
Plans to resolve trade barriers to UK lamb and beef in Asia
International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has today (Thursday, June 30) announced plans to resolve around 100 trade barriers, including those...
N.Ireland
Beef industry: Livestock production at heart of ‘regenerative agriculture’
Recent weeks have seen Europe’s beef industry arguing strongly that livestock production is at the heart of ‘regenerative agriculture’. The...
Agri-Business
Irish farm organisation meets UK unions to discuss drystock challenges
Members of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) executive have met with counterparts from other farming unions to discuss issues affecting...
Dairy
Overall decrease recorded in use of antimicrobials – WOAH
The use of antimicrobials in animals across the world has shown an overall decrease of 27% between 2016 and 2018,...
Agri-Business
Livestock methane-reducing product gets commercial contract in Oz
CH4 Global Inc. has announced the first commercial sale and supply of its Asparagopsis-based methane-reducing product for ruminant animals to...
Agri-Business
Potential foot and mouth case in UK a ‘concern’ for Irish farmers
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that a suspected case of foot and mouth disease on a pig farm...
N.Ireland
Beef Focus: ‘Growing multi-species swards requires a total mindset change’
The Turley family, based in Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, are suckler and beef farmers embarking on a new venture...
