Beef
NI-bred Simmental tops Stirling sale at 28,000gns
Simmental breeders Joe and Alan Wilson won the intermediate and supreme overall championships at this week’s breed society sale in...
Northern Ireland
N.Ireland
BVD numbers in NI at lowest levels since eradication programme
New figures from Animal Health and Welfare NI (AHWNI) have shown that the number of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Positive (BVDP)...
N.Ireland
UK farmers to breed ‘ultra-low-emission’ sheep
A new Agri-EPI Centre project to breed ultra-low-emission sheep is about the start on Romney rams in Hertfordshire in the...
N.Ireland
DAERA announces opening date for £300m Single Applications
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced the opening date for the £300 million Single Applications...
N.Ireland
Tillage: One cereal grower opts for P and K holiday in 2023
Co. Down cereal grower Allan Chambers will not be applying bagged phosphate (P) and potash (K) to his winter cereal...
N.Ireland
Highest on record: UK red meat exports worth £1.7bn in 2022
The value of the UK’s red meat exports has reached its highest ever levels since records began, the Agriculture and...
N.Ireland
DAERA and CAFRE offer biodiversity trip to Cotswolds farming cluster
Farmers in Northern Ireland are being offered an opportunity to travel to the Northeast Cotswolds Farmer Cluster in England to...
N.Ireland
‘Positive outcome’: NI farm households to receive energy support
Farm households that were originally ineligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme Payment will now receive support through Energy Bills...
N.Ireland
Enniskillen egg producers fined for water pollution offences
A business in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh has been fined for water pollution offences totalling £17,500 plus a £15 Offenders Levy....
Agri-Business
3 defendants fined after student killed while repairing tractor
Fines totalling £50,000 have been handed down to three defendants following the death of a student while he was repairing...
N.Ireland
Belfast man convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to pigs
A Belfast man has been convicted of one charge of causing unnecessary suffering to three pigs and one charge of...
N.Ireland
Court: Farmer convicted for water pollution offence
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted in court today (Monday, February 13) for a water pollution offence. Co....
N.Ireland
Vets in ROI-NI border region call for traditions to be maintained
Veterinary practitioners in the border region have raised concerns about the accreditation standards of a potential new vet school in...
N.Ireland
DAERA extends LMC chair and board appointments
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced the extension of the appointments of the chair and...
N.Ireland
Farmer sentenced for causing ‘unnecessary suffering’ to animals
A farmer from Northern Ireland has been sentenced to prison for causing unnecessary suffering to animals. Nigel Foster (55), of...
N.Ireland
Derry farmer to travel to Denmark for study trip on dairy
This summer will see Scott Thompson heading to Denmark to take part in a three-day, dairy-focused study trip. Scott milks...
N.Ireland
Agriculture revealed as NI’s largest source of emissions
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has released Northern Ireland’s greenhouse gas (GHG) projection statistics, which has...
Agri-Business
Northern Ireland JD dealers, Moore and Gilpin, become one
Two John Deere dealers in Northern Ireland have now become one as Stephen W Moore Ltd., announced that it is...
