N.Ireland
Concerns mount over ‘serious divergences’ on Brexit border issue
Concerns over “serious divergences” on protocols related to Ireland and Northern Ireland post-Brexit are mounting, an Irish MEP has warned....
Brexit
Schemes
‘Globalisation must work for EU farmers’ – Agriculture MEPs warn
Trade deals with third countries must be fair and balanced, imported foodstuffs must comply with high European Union (EU) standards...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland could continue getting EU funding post-Brexit
Northern Ireland should continue getting EU regional funds post-2020, when the Brexit transition period ends, the Regional Development Committee stated...
Agri Politics
Welsh union to put forward UK agricultural framework ideas
Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) president Glyn Roberts has raised concerns over the “stark contrast” between discussions on the future...
Beef
£2 million Brexit support deal for Welsh red meat sector
A multi-million-pound package of support to help the Welsh agri-food industry prepare for Brexit has been confirmed by First Minister...
Agri-Business
‘Timely meeting’ between Creed and UK Secretary Gove on Brexit
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, met with his UK counterpart – the Secretary of State...
Agri-Business
UK livestock farmers call for 'vital' frictionless trade with EU
Livestock farmers in the UK have made their feelings clear on the issue of post-Brexit trade with the EU amid...
N.Ireland
Biosecurity: Big issues facing post-Brexit disease control
Brexit could be an opportunity to bolster the UK’s biosecurity efforts – but much could be at stake if the...
N.Ireland
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...
Schemes
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...
Agri Politics
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...
N.Ireland
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...
N.Ireland
'Farming is in a Brexit honeymoon period'
Farming in the UK and Ireland is still in a “Brexit honeymoon period”, according to one of Northern Ireland’s chief...
N.Ireland
Border farms could get 'tax-free status' post-Brexit
Border farms and businesses could be given ‘tax-free status’ to ease post-EU trade pressures, the UK’s Brexit Secretary has said....
N.Ireland
'Brexit must herald an agricultural revolution'
The UK’s farming unions have called on the Government to facilitate an ‘agricultural revolution’ post-Brexit – but what exactly does...
Agri-Business
'Close to 100% of UK farms could be worse off after Brexit'
The high levels of uncertainty that continue to surround Brexit just a year out from the UK’s departure of the...
N.Ireland
Tea with May: Down farmer requests 'end to calendar farming'
Co. Down dairy farmer Stephen Jackson couldn’t have gone much higher when he took the ‘calendar farming’ concerns of thousands...
N.Ireland
Theresa May visit: See behind the scenes on the Co. Down farm...
Father and son David and Stephen Jackson run their farm together in North Down, but Brexit and challenges with the border...
