Beef
UK prime cattle slaughterings down 8% from 2014
UK prime cattle slaughterings in May 2015 were down 8% from last year to 143,800 head, a fall of 12,100...
Beef
UK prime cattle slaughterings in May 2015 were down 8% from last year to 143,800 head, a fall of 12,100...
EU
MEPs have voted on a draft law to ban the cloning of farm animals, their descendants and cloned food, feed...
Beef
Supplies of cattle to the countries’ export meat plants continues to be lower than last year with some 36,000 less...
Dairy
Overall dairy prices dipped 1.3% at this weeks Global Dairy Trade auction for the seventh consecutive price fall. Overall prices continue...
EU
The deadlock around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) needs to end, according to EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. The Commissioner...
Dairy
Installing two milking robots on a Swedish farm has given the owners more time with their children they say. Carina...
Dairy
Swedish dairy farmer Lars Inge Gunnarsson has over 700 cows on his dairy farm in the Skane region of Sweden, but...
Dairy
The Global Dairy Trade has fallen for the seventh consecutive time, down 1.3% today. The main drops were in milk...
Agri-Business
On June 17 MEPs from the Environment and Agriculture Committees will vote on draft regulations proposing to ban the cloning of...
Dairy
One woman has gone from a regular sales job to making 4,000kg of cheese a year by hand in her...
Agri-Business
Monsanto has expressed surprise at the decision taken by French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal to ban the herbicide Roundup from garden...
Dairy
Some 720 dairy cows are milked three times a day on the Skottorps Sateri dairy farm in Sweden which is...
Grass
Fertiliser sales volumes have picked up a pace recently with the silage season now in full swing, according to the...
Beef
Over 649,000 beef calves have been born so far this year, according to latest figures from the ICBF. Beef calf...
Sheep
Wool prices have increased by approximately 10% year on year, according to Co Wicklow wool merchant Vincent Pierce. “Irish merchants...
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is calling on primary school teachers to spend 30 minutes communicating farm safety messages...
Dairy
A report released by the New Zealand Department of Primary Industries was published last week, and has forecast a short...
World News
Fonterra is currently undergoing a review of its structure and management and is expected to report back to its farmer...