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N.Ireland
bTB costs continue to mount in Northern Ireland
Ulster Bank’s head of agriculture, Cormac McKervey, has highlighted the growing impact of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on dairy and livestock...
N.Ireland
Ulster Bank’s head of agriculture, Cormac McKervey, has highlighted the growing impact of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on dairy and livestock...
Agri Politics
Kaleb Cooper, who features in Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon Prime Video series ‘Clarkson’s Farm’, has spoken out about the difficulties caused...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president, David Brown attended last weekend’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) annual conference in Belfast. He confirmed...
Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has “acknowledged” that culling badgers in order to control the spread...
N.Ireland
A leading accountant has highlighted the growing pressures now impacting farm incomes in Northern Ireland. And the continuing decline in...
N.Ireland
The launch of the latest stage of the Northern Ireland Food Animal Information System (NIFAIS), a key traceability and animal...
N.Ireland
A new venue has been secured for the Newry Agricultural Show in 2023 after an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis (bTB)...
N.Ireland
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) agriculture spokesperson, Tom Elliott, is deeply concerned about the impact that bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is...
Agri-Business
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has called on the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to capitalise on...
N.Ireland
Culling badgers will have “no meaningful impact” on campaigns designed to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB), according to a leading UK...
Opinion
So here’s a question – can we come up with an alternative plan to have herds effectively tested for bovine...
N.Ireland
Farmers in Northern Ireland impacted by bovine tuberculosis (bTB) are coming under a significantly enhanced cost burden at the present...
N.Ireland
The chair of the Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Partnership (TBEP), Sean Hogan, has re-affirmed the need for a badger cull in...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has confirmed that political sign-off will be required to officially implement a new bovine tuberculosis...
N.Ireland
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president David Brown attended the 2023 Oxford Farming Conference (OFC), the traditional start of the UK...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said that bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is costing Northern Ireland more and more each year....
Agri-Business
A new all-island research project that will examine the factors behind persistent bTB has been launched. It will be the...
N.Ireland
David Brown is six months into his two-year presidency of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU). The Fermanagh suckler beef farmer...