Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is currently seeking quotes for electronic identification (EID) readers.
N.Ireland
From today (Monday, June 30), only XI prefixed tags can be used to identify newborn cattle, sheep, and goats in Northern Ireland
The Department of Agriculture (DAERA) extended the switchover date when ‘UK’ prefix livestock tags can no longer be used to June 30, 2025.
Over €1.7 million has been paid out to around 58,000 farmers under year one of the Bovine...
Beef
Following the announcement by Minister McConalogue of a subsidy scheme for EID tagging, a farm organisation has said farmers are "not fooled".
Beef News
Acknowledging the provision of the €4.25 million scheme for Bovine EID tagging, the IFA said the agriculture minister needs to go further.
Sheep
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have approved six marts to read electronic sheep tags.
A compulsory 38c cattle tag levy is set to be introduced in autumn of this year, the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has confirmed.
A farmer was convicted in court on one charge of failing to tag cattle, as well as a number of other animal movement related offences.
Poor quality ear tags cost farmers in Northern Ireland more than £700,000 (€807,660) a year, according to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU).
Another cattle tag supplier has received approval from the Department of Agriculture to supply cattle tags to farmers.
The cattle tag tender has been withdrawn by the Department of Agriculture, in light of two companies challenging the legality of the tender.
The legality of the Department of Agriculture's cattle tag tendering process is being called into question, as a second company has raised legal issues about the tag security.
