Agri-Business
Facemasks and temperature checks listed in new Covid protocols for NI marts
Temperature checks and mask-wearing are to become mandatory in Northern Ireland livestock marts as part of the latest set of...
coronavirus
Agri-Business
Organisers say CropTec is still on track to be a face-to-face event in 2020
Organisers of UK arable show CropTec say the physical event is still set to go ahead for 2020. It comes...
Agri-Business
AgriScot cancelled for November 2020
Hopes that at least one major agricultural event would be able to take place in Scotland this year have been...
N.Ireland
Pub installs electric fence to ensure social distancing at bar
The owner of a pub in the English county of Cornwall has taken hair-raising methods to ensure social distancing measures...
N.Ireland
Pub installs electric fence to ensure social distancing at bar
The owner of a pub in the English county of Cornwall has taken hair-raising methods to ensure social distancing measures...
Agri-Business
Covid-19: 73 people test positive on Herefordshire farm
Up to 200 workers have been asked to stay on-site during a two-week isolation period at a farm in Herefordshire, following...
Beef
Analyst compares impact of Covid-19 on beef markets around the globe
While the Covid-19 outbreak has been a global pandemic, it has had very different impacts across the global beef market,...
Rural Life
NFU Cymru to run webinar programme at virtual Royal Welsh Show
With the Royal Welsh Show is going online in light of coronavirus restrictions, NFU Cymru has decided to take its...
Dairy
Covid-19: 2020 UK Dairy Day cancelled
Organisers have been forced to call off one of the UK’s biggest dairy industry events. UK Dairy Day was planned...
Agri-Business
British Wool denied access to UK coronavirus support fund
Farmers unions across the UK have urged their retrospective governments to intervene after British Wool was refused access to a...
Agri-Business
Canada’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair cancelled for 2020
Canada’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair has become the latest major industry event to fall victim to the Covid-19 pandemic. The...
Machinery
New Holland looks to future after hitting major milestone
Amid “extraordinary circumstances” as Covid-19 continues to make its impact felt, agricultural machinery giant New Holland Agriculture has hit a...
Rural Life
Over 1,000 employees in German meat plant test positive for Covid-19
Germany’s Covid-19 transmission rate has risen sharply following outbreaks in meat processing plants among other areas, according to health authorities...
N.Ireland
Moy Park makes £4 million investment in Covid-19 staff protection
Poultry giant Moy Park has invested more than £4 million in safety and supportive measures to protect its staff during...
Agri-Business
NI’s £25 million Covid-19 support will ‘go to those who need it most’
Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots has said Northern Ireland’s £25 million Covid-19 support fund will be “targeted...
Rural Life
Cows ‘could be the newest weapon against Covid-19’
Genetically modified cows are currently being used by an American biotech firm to produce human antibodies that subdue SARS-CoV-2, the...
Dairy
Dairy co-op trained farmers to collect milk in Covid-19 back-up plan
One of the UK’s biggest dairy co-operatives, Arla Foods, has revealed the significant lengths it went to to ensure the continuity...
Agri-Business
David McWilliams on the future of the global economy – and return of the ‘luck penny’
ONE20: The Alltech Ideas Conference took place last week as a ‘virtual experience’ with online interviews and presentations rather than...
