N.Ireland
New TV show hopes to get NI farmers 'Coortin' In the Kitchen'
A new rural TV show hopes good farmhouse cooking can help pair up single farmers with potential love matches. ‘Coortin’...
N.Ireland
A new rural TV show hopes good farmhouse cooking can help pair up single farmers with potential love matches. ‘Coortin’...
Grass
A lot of second-cut silage has been saved across farms over the last few weeks, as the mixture of warm...
Beef
As we move through 2020, most spring-calving suckler herds will be looking to sell this year’s calf crop at sales...
N.Ireland
Recent increases in prices, combined with Covid-19 self-employment support and loans, are ‘artificially’ inflating many farm business cash flows, Omagh-based...
N.Ireland
DAERA Minister Edwin Poots has announced plans to gradually reintroduce CAFRE’s face-to-face knowledge and technology programmes in Northern Ireland. To...
Dairy
William and Alison Chestnutt have seen a “phenomenal demand” for their milk, as they launched a milk vending machine on...
N.Ireland
“Astonishing” figures show as many as 14,506 cattle have gone missing in Northern Ireland over the last four years. The...
N.Ireland
A new £1.7 million stimulus fund to help rural and micro-businesses expand, innovate and sustain rural communities has been launched...
N.Ireland
Tractor drivers from across Co. Down have smashed the £9,000 mark for Northern Ireland’s Air Ambulance. The Ards Peninsula Tractor...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has warned farmers that the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) could order...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is urging more Northern Ireland councils to support their local food producers and businesses after...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots set out plans to formally include “wildlife intervention” in a new bovine TB...
N.Ireland
There was an element of bravado at the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) AGM today, Saturday, July 25, as newly-elected president Victor...
N.Ireland
Newly-elected Ulster Farmers’ Union deputy president William Irvine told members the UK is “facing a wartime food challenge” at the...
Tillage
A discussion group set up in the east of Scotland is aiming to farm for a better climate. Not unsimiliar...
N.Ireland
It might be more commonly associated with Northern Ireland’s flagship agricultural show – the Balmoral Show – but today, Saturday,...
N.Ireland
Temperature checks and mask-wearing are to become mandatory in Northern Ireland livestock marts as part of the latest set of...
Tillage
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) in the UK has described 2020 as a challenging season for winter barley....