N.Ireland
Rank and file farmers support UFU policy priorities
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has confirmed that the broad swathe of farmers in Northern Ireland fully support...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has confirmed that the broad swathe of farmers in Northern Ireland fully support...
N.Ireland
A “technical solution” is reportedly available for livestock trade issues between Britain and Northern Ireland, but would require political buy-in...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has announced plans to hold two online training sessions to inform slurry contractors about several...
Environment
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has aired its concerns over the economic effects of rewetting peatland in Northern Ireland as...
Rural Life
Farmers have been urged to share their personal bovine TB story in response to the consultation over Northern Ireland’s new...
Rural Life
The chilling psychological effects of bovine TB have left some farmers unable to even enter their own yards, according to...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has welcomed the department’s proposed Future Agricultural Policy Framework Portfolio as a “step in the...
Agri-Business
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is urging farmers to take a “hard look” at Northern Ireland’s proposed bovine TB (bTB)...
Agri-Business
Agricultural leaders have stood by their stark warnings about Northern Ireland’s Climate Change Bill after an independent report has found...
N.Ireland
Aiming for net-zero by 2045 – as called for in Northern Ireland’s Climate Bill – could result in the loss...
Agri-Business
Members of Stormont’s Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs committee visited a farm in Co. Tyrone to see for themselves the...
Agri-Business
Farmers and rural business owners with RHI boilers that received a letter from the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets...
N.Ireland
The winners of the 2021 Dig in schools competition, celebrating 10 years of Open Farm Weekend, have been announced. The...
Tillage News
A far reaching review of its tillage sector has confirmed the key role played by crop production within Northern Ireland’s...
Agri-Business
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said welcomed the launch of the new bovine TB Eradication Strategy for Northern Ireland...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has slammed targets set in the private member’s Climate Change Bill as “complete...
N.Ireland
Radical proposals for future farm support for sheep and suckler farmers have been put forward by Northern Ireland’s farming industry....
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s agricultural industry has commissioned an impact assessment report to evaluate how ambitions for Northern Ireland to achieve net-zero...