N.Ireland
Are worm burdens affecting the performance of your lambs?
Worm control is vital if you are aiming to achieve good lamb growth rates and a profitable sheep enterprise. Heavy...
CAFRE
Agri-Business
What is the cost of silage on conacre?
Alan Hopps, senior dairying adviser at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Figures show that the average...
Agri-Business
Measuring to manage: The key to success for dairy farmers
As in many other sectors, dairy farmers are currently facing a difficult time due to the coronavirus pandemic. An increase...
Agri-Business
Measuring to manage: The key to success for dairy farmers
As in many other sectors, dairy farmers are currently facing a difficult time due to the coronavirus pandemic. An increase...
N.Ireland
The benefits of good planning now for next year’s calves
Colin McEvoy, beef and sheep development adviser at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Conditions for calving...
Agri-Business
CAFRE to become Northern Ireland’s first VetSkill centre
Plans have been approved for the College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) to become the first VetSkill Centre...
Agri-Business
CAFRE to become Northern Ireland’s first VetSkill centre
Plans have been approved for the College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) to become the first VetSkill Centre...
N.Ireland
Face-to-face teaching stops at NI’s agricultural college
Northern Ireland’s agricultural college – CAFRE – has ceased all face-to-face teaching and education programmes. The decision was made by DAERA...
Forestry
1,000 saplings planted as part of new DAERA programme
DAERA’s largest ever public tree planting event took place on Monday, March 9, as around 400 school pupils planted 1,000...
Forestry
1,000 saplings planted as part of new DAERA programme
DAERA’s largest ever public tree planting event took place on Monday, March 9, as around 400 school pupils planted 1,000...
Agri-Business
What does the future hold for NI agri-food graduates?
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots told students at CAFRE’s annual agri-food careers event that the sector needs to retain...
Agri-Business
What does the future hold for NI agri-food graduates?
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots told students at CAFRE’s annual agri-food careers event that the sector needs to retain...
N.Ireland
CAFRE set to host orchard management event at Loughry campus
An orchard management event in Northern Ireland is set to focus on soil fertility, disease management, caring for younger trees...
Agri-Business
UCD smashes subsidy debate to come out tops at the Great Agri-food Debate
Two days of vigorous and lively debate over some of agriculture’s most controversial topics saw University College Dublin (UCD) come out...
Agri-Business
UCD smashes subsidy debate to come out tops at the Great Agri-Food Debate
Two days of vigorous and lively debate over some of agriculture’s most controversial topics saw University College Dublin (UCD) come out...
Rural Life
Bright young things of ag science battle it out at the 2020 Big Agri-Food Debate
Some of the brightest young brains in Irish agricultural colleges are battling it out to debate some of the industry’s...
N.Ireland
CAFRE invests £100,000 in NI’s first tractor simulators
A new piece of kit at Greenmount College could make young safer tractor drivers – before they even set foot...
Dairy
NI applications invited for this study tour to Britain
Northern Ireland dairy farmers have the chance to see for themselves how two large Yorkshire enterprises manage their staffing and...
