Agri-Business
Group forms to defend agri merchants' rights to dispense LM vet medicines
A new organisation has been formed to safeguard the rights of agricultural merchants to prescribe and dispense certain veterinary medicines...
Agri-Business
A new organisation has been formed to safeguard the rights of agricultural merchants to prescribe and dispense certain veterinary medicines...
N.Ireland
Cranswick Country Foods factory in Cullybackey, Co. Antrim, has reopened two weeks after authorities ordered it to close following an...
Agri Politics
“When something is a failure, we need to name it as a failure and deal with it as a failure.”...
Agri Politics
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has said that the newly-appointed Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, must “extend...
Rural Life
Independent TD Michael McNamara has said that it is “very disappointing, but not entirely surprising” to hear accounts of meat...
Rural Life
A meat plant worker has said that while production continues in their workplace, they “can never be safe”. Speaking to...
Rural Life
Meat plant workers have spoken out about the Covid-19 safety measures that have been put in place in their workplaces,...
Beef
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it is “believed that travel and accommodation played a part” in causing Covid-19 clusters...
Agri Politics
59% of Covid-19 cases in meat factories were asymptomatic, according to the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET). At the...
Beef
The number of sheep slaughtered in July of this year was 16.2% higher than in July 2019, according to the...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has warned “action needs to be taken” to prevent the closure of a pig processing...
Beef
22 out of 23 Covid-19 inspections carried out by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in meat processing plants in...
Pig/Poultry
China is currently auctioning off 10,000t of frozen pork from its state reserve each week after a severe production shortfall...
Agri Politics
Following the outbreak of Covid-19 in a number of meat factories in Co. Tipperary, Fianna Fáil TD Jackie Cahill has...
Pig/Poultry
Trade union SIPTU has told AgriLand that the concerns of Rosderra Irish Meats workers who left the plant in Clara in...
Pig/Poultry
The Rosderra Irish Meats facility in Clara, Co. Offaly, has seen four members of staff test positive for Covid-19. The...
Agri-Business
A senior official with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has said he received “legal advice” that said...
Agri-Business
Research based on the outbreak of Covid-19 at the Tonnies meat processing facility in Germany has suggested that Covid-19 can...