Environment
Climate Change Bill overlooks significance of livestock production in NI – LMC
Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) chief executive Ian Stevenson feels that the Private Members’ Climate Change Bill, recently introduced at...
Stormont
Agri-Business
More than 1,000 responses to ANC Bill consultation
A Private Members Bill proposing the reinstatement of support payments for Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) in Northern Ireland has...
Environment
Discussions start at Stormont over NI’s 2 proposed environmental bills
Discussions have started in Stormont over two potentially competing environmental bills setting out targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Northern...
N.Ireland
Ministers assigned as Stormont NI Assembly resumes
The Northern Ireland Assembly is back in power after a three-year absence, following agreement from a majority of political parties...
N.Ireland
Farm lobby group to protest at Stormont
Farming lobby group Farmers For Action (FFA) is calling for farmers to take to Stormont to urge Northern Ireland’s politicians...
N.Ireland
Stormont stalemate: Financial pressures mount on the hill
It looks increasingly likely that December’s emergency budget drafted for Stormont will be put into action, as civil servants call...
N.Ireland
Stormont stalemate: 8 Department of Agriculture decisions awaiting ministerial sign-off
Eight policy decisions within Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) await ministerial sign-off because of the...
N.Ireland
Stormont stalemate tightens grip on Northern farms
Farmers have voiced their frustration that decisions affecting some of Northern Ireland’s biggest agricultural issues have been put on the...
N.Ireland
Agriculture 'undoubtedly side-lined' without working Executive
It’s feared that a disappointing budget for rural dwellers and farmers could be a sign of things to come post-Brexit...
N.Ireland
Agriculture singled out as ‘critical policy area’ in DUP £1 billion deal with Tories
Northern Ireland’s agriculture sector has been highlighted as a “critical policy area during the EU exit negotiations” in an agreement...
N.Ireland
'Election in the North will result in the drying up of funding streams for farming'
SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone believes the imminent collapse of the Stormont Executive and a subsequent election will result in the...
N.Ireland
Election uncertainty confronts agriculture in Northern Ireland
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) sources have confirmed that Northern Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Michelle McIlveen, will continue in office until...
N.Ireland
UFU to storm Stormont on Friday
The Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) has announced that it is to co-ordinate a major demonstration of the wider agri-food industry...
