Agri Politics
Government introduces new welfare standards for transporting animals
Higher welfare standards for farm animals being transported, including shorter journey times, more headroom and stricter rules on being moved...
Agri Politics
Higher welfare standards for farm animals being transported, including shorter journey times, more headroom and stricter rules on being moved...
Agri-Business
Global food commodity prices fell in July for a second consecutive month. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price...
N.Ireland
A Co. Down farmer has been convicted of 24 charges of failure to notify the movement of animals onto his...
Pig/Poultry
The French Agriculture Minister, Julien Denormandie, has announced that the killing of male chicks by methods of crushing or gassing...
Agri-Business
A public-private partnership approach to help control the spread of African swine fever (ASF) has commenced, coinciding with a recent...
N.Ireland
The countdown is on for this year’s Bank of Ireland Virtual Farm Weekend in Northern Ireland. The event will take...
N.Ireland
Changes proposed for Northern Ireland's General Licences include the removal of six species of wild birds. General licences are used...
Rural Life
Two people have died following a collision at 5:50a.m on Saturday, July 3, which occurred on the A66/A595 Fitz roundabout...
Agri-Business
A Northern Ireland peer has demanded the UK intervene over changes to EU law that would allow processed animal protein...
Agri-Business
Marks and Spencer will be the first major retailer to sell only slower-reared, higher welfare, chicken across its full range...
Agri-Business
Consumption of animal protein will "level off" in high-income countries over the next 10 years, according to a new report....
N.Ireland
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has condoned a trespassing incident on a poultry farm in Co. Armagh earlier today (July 2)...
N.Ireland
A group of animal rights activists have forced entry into a chicken farm in Moira, Co. Armagh in a dispute...
Pig/Poultry
Clare Gaukroger has joined Cargill’s pig team as research coordinator for the UK. Based in North Yorkshire, she is establishing...
Agri-Business
A new £40 million centre at Pirbright to develop vaccines for zoonotic diseases that spread from animals to humans is...
Rural Life
A disqualified farmer in Gloucestershire has pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep which inspectors found dead on...
Agri-Business
Global food prices rose in May at their fastest monthly rate in more than a decade, the Food and Agriculture...
Agri-Business
Roslin Technologies has announced that Ernst van Orsouw has been appointed its new CEO, to lead the company as it...