poultry

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland With breaks of sunshine in between cloud, day one of Balmoral Show yesterday (Wednesday, May 16) brought thousands of visitors to the Eikon Exhibition Centre location in Lisburn. Among the guests of honour at the event organised by the Royal Ulster...

Introducing Laying Hen Housing for Health and Welfare grants Written by The Team Credit: Matt Cartney. Crown Copyright. Next month, a new grant for hen housing will be available to laying hen and pullet farmers in England with flocks of 1,000 birds or more. We've just published the guidance...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Scottish rural secretary Mairi Gougeon said problems with securing migrant labour in seasonal and seafood processing still “loom large” despite the extension to the Seasonal Workers Scheme. Gougeon said this is because the domestic market has...

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...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said the extension to the Seasonal Workers Scheme will be a “huge relief” for the horticulture and poultry sectors that “rely on seasonal workers”. In its response to John Shropshire’s Independent Review into...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland The World Bank has today (Tuesday, May 7) launched ‘Recipe for a Livable Planet’ – the first comprehensive global strategic framework for mitigating agri-food system emissions. It shows how the system that produces the world’s food can cut greenhouse gas...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland The owners of an upland farm in Co. Antrim have purchased additional land and invested significantly in diversification and automation to help secure the future of the family’s third generation of farmer. Timmy and Karen Rea, who farm 260ac of land...

I am currently with Pozitive energy for my import, which is now costing over £1400/ month, on an actual useage of £17.90 worth of electric. This month the Distribution fxed chargs has doubled from £12.52 per day to £25.28 per day this is for a 100kVa supply. I realise that I need to pay to...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The 2024 British Pig & Poultry Fair will feature two days of forums, networking, expert advice and new products, organisers have said. The biennial event, which is organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), will take place...

Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland The benchmark for world food commodity prices edged higher in April, as rising meat prices and modest upticks for vegetable oils and cereals more than offset decreases for sugar and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Representatives of Farmers for Action (FFA) have discussed the Gosling Report with members of the Stormont Agriculture Committee. The publication, commissioned by FFA and produced by independent economist, Paul Gosling, assesses the current state of...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A 56% drop in poultry meat exports since 2020 underscores the erosion of British poultry supply chains due to Brexit, and shows the need for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement. This is the view of the British Poultry Council (BPC)...

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RABDF Down to Earth, the regenerative livestock farming event, will be hosted at a housed cow unit for the second year in a row; cows milked 3x per day, I understand it to be "high input, high output". Not knocking confinement systems, but can this system really be regenerative? I believe that...

With huge apologies to all farmers for the massively naive nature of this post, my wife and I are exploring buying (and farming) a livestock farm. I have the financial resources but no experience and I don't know any farmers. Any suggestions of where to go to get experience or any good courses...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched an action-oriented, country-focused initiative to reduce the need for antimicrobials on farms. It comes amid the growing threat posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland 10 years of the Food Fortress programme has delivered an unmatched level of security for the farming and food chain throughout Ireland, where the production of compound animal feed is concerned. This was one of the key messages delivered by Food...

How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...

After many successful events at Stoneleigh, Pig & Poultry are based for their first year at the NEC! Who's joining us?