Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has been called on to increase the...
Animal Health Ireland is hopeful compensation rates paid for calves that test positive for BVD will increase to reflect current market value.
Herds with a confirmed case of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) will see major restrictions introduced from 2026 as part of a new action plan.
Agri-Business
A joint cross-border bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) awareness campaign has started.
N.Ireland
Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI) is encouraging farmers to check that all calves...
Herd keepers in Northern Ireland are being advised that from December 1, the threshold for applying...
Sporadic outbreaks of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) are continuing to cause concern, Animal Health...
According to Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI), recent test results have proven a significant pattern of BVD is developing.
Farmers are being asked to help co-design a new computer simulation model that could inform the...
Taking a ‘silo approach’ to animal health misses out fundamentally on the impact this key principle of animal husbandry has across farming
AWHNI is advising farmers to ensure that there are no cattle in their herds that could be potential sources of BVD infection.
DAERA has published the brucellosis compensation rates that will be paid to farmers in Northern Ireland for June 2025.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), Andrew Muir, is advising herd...
AHWNI has warned that restrictions are coming for herds with significant numbers of cattle untested for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD).
Farmers have been warned that cattle in the Northern Ireland herd will be "increasingly susceptible" to BVD according to AHWNI group.
Dairy
The number of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) positive herds has increased by nearly 20% since last years figures, increasing to 113 positive...
The grace period for herd restrictions on NI farms with positive/inconclusive bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) detections will be cut on May 1
BVD test results have revealed higher numbers of positive results in south Co. Fermanagh and south of Co. Armagh, according to the AHWNI
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has announced the launch of the Biosecurity Targeted Advisory Service for Animal Health (TASAH).
Beef News
Minister Heydon has announced additional financial support to farmers to assist in bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) tissue testing for 2025.
BVD positive retention rate has fallen 'considerably', according to latest figures from Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI)
Industries have indicated support for the recently produced BVD Code of Good Practice by AHWNI and the DAERA
The ICMSA has warned that BVD testing is costing farmers €13 million directly per annum and that they are no longer prepared to finance this.
