Agri-Business
Balmoral Park under consideration to become NI field hospital
May is always a lively time at Balmoral showgrounds but despite the postponement of the 2020 show, this spring the...
coronavirus
Agri-Business
UK facing flour shortages as baking becomes lockdown pastime
The UK is self-sufficient in flour, producing about 90,000t every week. Yet many people are experiencing shortages in supermarkets and...
Agri-Business
APHA to defer rollout of new 6-month TB testing regime
Plans to implement tighter, six-monthly TB tests in Shropshire and Staffordshire will be deferred until after the Covid-19 pandemic is...
Agri-Business
NI farmers urged to complete Single Application now
The Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots has urged all farmers and agents to continue to submit their...
Machinery
JCB to join ‘national effort’ to address ventilator shortage
JCB is set to re-start production at one of its factories, which had been closed due to the coronavirus crisis,...
Agri-Business
GDT platform ‘will continue to remain fully operational’
The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) trading platform will “continue to remain fully operational” with auctions to continue as normal, according...
Agri-Business
NI agriculture minister halts all routine farm inspections
All routine farm inspections will be paused until 30 April 2020, Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots has confirmed...
Rural Life
Feed the Nation: 11,000 sign up to 'Land Army' style scheme
More than 11,000 people have signed up to a new ‘Land Army’ style scheme to help farms across the UK...
Machinery
Fendt production suspended at 2 plants due to Covid-19
The agricultural machinery producer AGCO – maker of Fendt – is suspending the production at its Marktoberdorf and Asbach-Bäumenheim sites...
Agri-Business
25,000 new customers sign up to Milk & More in unprecedented surge
The UK’s largest milk and grocery doorstep delivery service, Milk & More, has launched a new recruitment drive as new...
Rural Life
Spanish farmers aid authorities in battle against Covid-19
Spanish farmers have joined in the fight alongside the country’s authorities to tackle the spread of Covid-19 in the southern EU nation...
Rural Life
Pirbright begins testing potential Covid-19 vaccines on animals
The UK’s Pirbright Institute is to begin testing new coronavirus vaccines on animals to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Working...
Agri-Business
Farmers asked to safeguard agri contractors during pandemic
Farmers have been asked to do what they can to protect agricultural contractors as UK Government implements stricter ‘stay at...
Rural Life
Peak District farmer assaulted by walker
A farmer in Peak District has appealed for the UK to enter a total lockdown after he was reportedly punched...
Agri-Business
JCB to extend UK production shutdown to ‘at least’ end of April
JCB is suspending UK production until “at least” the end of April as a result of the Covid-19 crisis –...
Agri-Business
Staff at ABP and Moy Park sites ‘hold walkout’ over Covid-19 concerns
Additional reporting by Rachel Martin Workers at two of Northern Ireland’s biggest agri-food processing sites have walked today (Wednesday, March...
Agri-Business
UK announces 3-week lockdown to halt spread of Covid-19
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a three-week lockdown for Britain in an effort to contain Covid-19. In an...
Agri-Business
Diageo pledges 2 million litres of alcohol to produce sanitiser
Diageo has pledged to enable the creation of more than eight million bottles of hand sanitiser, by donating up to...
