Environment
NI Agriculture Minister pledges to plant 18 million trees
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots MLA has pledged to help tackle climate change by planting 18 million trees over...
DAERA
Environment
Farmer fined in court over silage effluent pollution
A farmer that pleaded guilty to allowing a polluting discharge from his farm to enter a waterway in the Cloughmills...
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...
Agri-Business
Fivemiletown business fined for water pollution offence
A farm business in Co. Tyrone has been fined £1,250 at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court today after pleading guilty to a...
Agri-Business
AgriSearch to launch robotic milking system research project
Northern Ireland researchers are seeking to recruit 25 dairy farmers from using robotic milking systems for an upcoming research project....
Beef
DAERA announces brucellosis compensation rates for February
Brucellosis compensation rates for February 2020 have been announced by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in...
Agri-Business
Poots: Northern Ireland’s TB spend is a 'bigger scandal than RHI'
Northern Ireland’s new agriculture minister has said the region’s spend on Bovine TB is a “bigger scandal” than the botched...
Agri-Business
Minister to challenge processors as NI farm income freefalls
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture has pledged to challenge retailers and supermarkets over prices as the latest departmental figures point...
Agri-Business
NI total income from farming figures fell by 25% in 2019
Provisional figures indicate that the ‘Total Income from Farming’ (TIFF) in Northern Ireland fell by 25% (26% in real terms)...
N.Ireland
NI farmers warned to be aware of new slurry spreading rules
Farmers have been warned to be aware of new slurry spreading rules for spreading during the month of February which...
N.Ireland
High phosphorous poultry manure deadline looming for NI poultry farmers
Northern Ireland poultry farmers are reminded that there are just days left until the deadline to send manure exportation records...
Agri-Business
Business Development Groups Scheme closing date extended
Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has extended the closing date for applications to the Business Development Groups (BDGs) Scheme,...
Agri-Business
New NI ag minister to weigh up end to calendar-based slurry dates
There were big promises made at Dundonald House as Northern Ireland’s first Agriculture Minister in three years set out his...
Dairy
Dairy farmers offered ‘free trip to learn heifer-raising techniques’
Northern Ireland dairy farmers are being offered a free opportunity to learn about the latest and innovative practices about rearing...
N.Ireland
New NI agriculture minister – Edwin Poots – sets out ‘common sense approach’
Minister Poots has no doubt had a mountain of paperwork and reports to read as he completed his first week...
N.Ireland
NI pig farm protest: Taken pig was ‘held to ransom’
Several piglets are said to have died after vegan protesters raided a Co. Antrim farm taking a pig on Tuesday...
Agri-Business
Views sought on strategy to make NI agri-food sector the most innovative in the UK
The Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is seeking the public’s views on ambitious plans to make Northern...
