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Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland Former Ireland and Ulster rugby prop forward Simon Best has partnered with British Heart Foundation (BHF) Northern Ireland (NI) to encourage his fellow farmers to be aware of their heart health. The Co. Armagh arable farmer will be at the Balmoral Show this...

Further funding to tackle endemic diseases Written by The Team By reducing the levels of endemic disease in livestock, we can increase productivity, support businesses and unlock wider benefits too — from reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to slowing antimicrobial resistance (AMR)...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The UK parliament passed a bill yesterday (Tuesday, May 14), which will ban the livestock exports of animals for slaughter or fattening for slaughter. Banning live export for fattening and slaughter has been a conservative “manifesto commitment” since...

Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland A new £3 million fund competition to help protect Northern Ireland’s peatlands has been launched by Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir MLA. Councils and voluntary organisations can now apply for the Peatland Challenge...

Afternoon all. An export deal of some calves from a nearby dairy farmer fell through at the 11th hour so I bought them off him in the Autumn. Thought it might be fun to try my hand at showing. Not expecting to take the world by storm, just enter the local show in September. Any tips? Pic is of...

Morning, I am wondering if anyone can shed any light on what is involved in starting a dairy flock? Sourcing ewes, milking system (OAD or TAD), expected litres/lactation length and weaning of lambs (my research so far has shown this to differ between producers)? My dairy experience lies with...

Managing a small herd of longhorns here.Lovely quiet cows untill they have a calf, then it's as if a switch has been flicked and they suddenly become possessed by the devil. This of course then becomes exacerbated when you have calves that don't suck; big traffic cone tits to latch onto; tagging...

If I buy land for recreation rather than for farming does that mean it would lose its value if wanting to sell it in future? Well I would certainly be maintaining it, just not for agriculture. Well maybe still agriculture if talking about permaculture, just not the intensive farming with...

I've tried searching around and haven't found anything in the TFF annals so here we go! We have about 25 acres of woodland on our patch. Some of it very mature and a small but expanding area of natural regenerative woodland and some acres of steep, gorse and bramble covered ground. After years...

How do people judge if it’s weather this thing and hard start to life for them affecting them or underlying issues ? Been white dosed and got cocci dose about 2 weeks ago going by vet advice and the nemo risk forecast

anyone know if I can find out the holding number of livestock markets - trying to report movements to BCMS but have not got market holding number.

i know its a bit close to the 15th but do you have to do anything this year with regards to a claim. we claimed last year all ok does that mean we don't do anything no application/claim nothing ... now and it will still be paid. and do you get bps money as well as sfi if you apply and get...

I have a small sheep trailer with a 13pin plug on it, I bought a 13 pin to 7 pin adapter for my landy, yet I am often flashed because one on the indicators on the the trailer doesn't always flash, yet fiddling with the plug they all work, there seems to be to much leverage on the plug and...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland The export of live sheep by sea from Australia will end on in 2028, the Australian government has announced. A AUD$107 million federal transition support package for the Australian sheep industry will support the phase out of live sheep exports by sea...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Zoetis is warning all farmers to take regular faecal egg count tests to help prevent unnecessary losses, as data shows that the risk period changes yearly. The animal health company said results from the 25 monitoring farms in its parasite watch...

Apologies if this has been covered before, but I am interested to know if anybody out there (in the UK that is, sorry not trying to alienate anybody else) is genuinely mob-grazing sheep on tall grass or other covers? It seems that many people are trying it to some degree, but I cannot find...

Anyone got an ingenious solution to stop water going bad when the weather's hot? A few days of heat and its all gone green, its from a spring which seems to go off faster than mains water.

Is the Livestock sector, especially sheep and beef at a significant crossroads? The present long overdue higher prices for sheep may not mean that there will be an increase in production. Statistically there will be a significantly lower lamb crop this year, so it is likely that prices will...

So, things have changed a little, organic is the old school, flat cap wearing, tweed kinda feel. Regenerative is the new kid on the block, rather edgy, slick style but promising a down to earth feel. So in the marketing eyes of the British Retail Consortium who are they going to run with? Who...