N.Ireland
'Setting up a farming business for the future' - Ulster Grassland Society
The theme set for this year’s Ulster Grassland Society (UGS) conference is ‘Setting up a farming business for the future’....
N.Ireland
The theme set for this year’s Ulster Grassland Society (UGS) conference is ‘Setting up a farming business for the future’....
N.Ireland
Breeding cows with improved robotic milking speeds will allow an expansion of the dairy herd at Draynes Farm in Northern...
Tillage Focus
The dry spell at the end of September and early October allowed contractor, Darren Russell, to plant a 20ac crop...
N.Ireland
Marks and Spencer (M&S) has confirmed that it is now working with a Co. Armagh vegetable grower to help boost...
N.Ireland
Campbell Tweed will host an EasyCare open evening at his Ballycoose farm, near Carncastle in Co. Antrim, on Tuesday, August...
Beef
Details have just been announced of the unreserved Dispersal Sale of the Coolnaslee Herd of pedigree Charolais cattle. The auction...
Sheep
An attempt to break the Irish sheep shearing record will take place in Co. Antrim next week. Tom Perry, a...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is urging farmers to be “extra vigilant” of rural theft after reports of GPS equipment...
N.Ireland
Dairy farmer, Conor Casey has said he “enjoyed the interaction with other farmers who are keen to learn” after a...
Dairy News
A dairy farming family in Co. Antrim has been announced as Supreme Champions of the Lakeland Dairies Milk Quality Awards....
N.Ireland
A retired farmer in Northern Ireland has been fined £2,000 for unauthorised works to a scheduled monument, which has existed...
Rural Life
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has appealed for information following the discovery of two dead white-tailed eagles in...
Beef
A number of records were broke at James and Nelson Alexander’s Jalex Select on-farm sale of commercial heifers which took...
N.Ireland
By Barbara Collins The cliché of the farmer’s wife making ‘pin money’ with pots of jam is a well-worn trope,...
N.Ireland
A Co. Antrim farmer, 50-year-old Mark Patterson from Carmavy Road, Crumlin was convicted at Ballymena Magistrates’ Court for a water...
Sheep
In terms of flock management, Glasgow Veterinary School academic, George King believes that output per labour unit will be the...
N.Ireland
A Co. Antrim farmer has been convicted at Ballymena Magistrates Court for a water pollution offence which resulted in the...
Beef News
The potential to include red clover, in tandem with hybrid ryegrass varieties, within a silage sward has been highlighted by...