Environment
A family in Co. Down has recorded barn owls breeding successfully on their farm for the third year in a row.
Beef
Co. Down’s Gill Hall Estate, the venue of the 2023 World Sheepdog Trials, is set to open its gates for its inaugural on-farm pedigree sale.
N.Ireland
For the first time, Borderway UK Dairy Expo will showcase not only the finest of dairy cattle, but...
Tillage
The recent mild weather has encouraged exceptional growth rates in winter barley, wheat and oat crops throughout the country.
Dairy
In the North of Ireland, traditionally, a lot of the herds would be high yielding Holsteins being milked on a total mixed ration (TMR), fully
East Co Down cereal grower, Allan Chambers, is confirming a yield of 4.8t/ac from the first of his 2024 winter barley crops
Agri-Business
Lisney has listed for sale the Lakeland Dairies processing site located on Rathfriland Road just outside Banbridge in County Down.
A pair of barn owls has surprised and shocked conservationists in Co. Down with the arrival of an extremely late winter brood of four chicks.
A farmer has been convicted and fined in court for moving cattle into a herd that was restricted due to bovine tuberculosis (TB).
Dairy Focus
By Barbara Collins Glastry Farm is a specialised dairy farm which extends to 247ac owned, as...
The Ulster Grassland Society recently hosted a successful visit to the Kilkeel farm of James, and Brenda Henderson.
Rural Life
An increasingly rare breeding bird has returned to a designated peatland site in Co. Down for the first time in many years.
Tillage News
Co. Down cereal grower Allan Chambers will not be applying bagged phosphate (P) and potash (K) to his winter cereal crops in 2023.
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture (DAERA) has introduced further disease control measures due to an outbreak of bird flu in Down.
A Co. Down cereal grower does not believe that a measure such as a Tillage Incentive Scheme should be used to expand Ireland’s tillage area.
A Co. Down cereal grower has confirmed that Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) has caused problems within his 2021/22 winter barley acreage.
While tractor runs have been a rare sight due to Covid-19, this didn't stop one tractor club from presenting funds to a great cause.
A complaint made by a local community page in Co. Down about "all night silage cutting" has triggered a lively debate in recent days.
Help and information has been sought from the public in relation to a hit-and-run incident involving a tractor by the PSNI.
An excellent holding of agricultural land, an attractive farm house, yard and farm buildings, is currently on the market at £16,250/ac.
Shooter property services brings to the market excellent agricultural land on 44ac, along with a two-storey dwelling and outbuildings.
Four men were arrested in a police operation targeting stolen vehicles in Northern Ireland recently, the PSNI has confirmed.
Gorse fires have been wreaking havoc in Co. Wicklow today, while elsewhere in the country a farm fire broke out in Co. Down.
