Agri-Business
FFA discusses cost of production based pricing with Sir Peter Kendall
Proposals for legislation to establish cost-of-production linked pricing for farm produce have fallen flat with the author of an independent...
FFA
N.Ireland
Business plan completed for NI’s new bovine TB strategy
Department officials have now completed work on the business case for Northern Ireland's new bovine TB strategy, with plans to...
N.Ireland
FFA: Firm date needed for TB action
Farmers For Action has written to Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister calling for a firm date for when the region's bovine...
N.Ireland
Farm Welfare Bill comes before NI Agriculture Committee
Northern Ireland agricultural lobby group NI Farm Groups put its Farm Welfare Bill before the Agriculture Committee on Thursday (February...
N.Ireland
FFA: Deal or no deal, Brexit is still a train wreck
Farmers For Action (FFA) has written to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to seek a two-year extension to the...
N.Ireland
Calls for urgent TB roundtable talks as FFA warns ‘farmers have suffered enough’
Farmers For Action has warned Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture not to use Brexit transition deadlines as “an excuse” to...
N.Ireland
Farm group threatens legal action following Agriculture Bill vote
Agricultural lobby group Farmers For Action (FFA) has warned farmers could take legal action should future UK trade deals undermine...
N.Ireland
Farm group threatens legal action following Agriculture Bill vote
Agricultural lobby group Farmers For Action (FFA) has warned farmers could take legal action should future UK trade deals undermine...
N.Ireland
Letter to the editor: Latest deductions show need for legislation on farm gate prices
Farmers For Action (FFA) has been receiving complaints from pig farmers supplying Cranswick Country Foods at Cullybackey (Co. Antrim) in...
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...
N.Ireland
Covid-19 makes case to end rural school closures says FFA
The Covid-19 pandemic has proved the social value of smaller, rural schools, according to a Northern Ireland farm lobby group....
Agri-Business
Proposed red diesel changes could cost farmers 50p/L
Plans to ditch the red diesel rebate expected to appear in the Chancellor’s next Budget could cost working farmers as much...
Beef
Beef Crisis meeting: Almost 200 NI farmers back new farm organisation plans
Almost 200 farmers from across Northern Ireland attended a ‘beef crisis meeting’ held last night in Cookstown – many angry...
Beef
Beef crisis meeting: Almost 200 NI farmers back new farm organisation plans
Almost 200 farmers from across Northern Ireland attended a ‘beef crisis meeting’ held last night in Cookstown – many angry...
Beef
New farm groups alliance to host Northern Ireland beef crisis meeting
A new producer group alliance has come together under the name NI Farm Groups to host a ‘beef crisis meeting’...
N.Ireland
FFA requests meeting with UK competition authorities
The ongoing beef protests across Ireland has brought “a number of questions for beef processors, corporate food retailers and corporate...
N.Ireland
FFA requests meeting with UK competition authorities
The ongoing beef protests across Ireland have brought “a number of questions for beef processors, corporate food retailers and corporate...
N.Ireland
Brexit: Farmers For Action calls for second referendum
A farm lobby body in Northern Ireland has called for a second referendum on Brexit in a desperate bid to...
