N.Ireland
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture has called for efforts to ensure the continued movement of poultry manure from Northern Ireland.
Grass
Agricultural contractors in Northern Ireland are confirming that broadleaf weeds in grassland are becoming a major challenge in 2026.
The Agri‑Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) has welcomed the publication today of DAERA's formal response to the Review of AFBI.
Arable
The demands on effective crop care are intensifying with active agents being withdrawn, costs rising, and resistance becoming a challenge.
NI beef producers must be allowed to achieve ongoing realistic levels of economic sustainability, a senior academic manager has stressed.
Agri-Business
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) have responded to the funding pot for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2026.
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has launched its 'Where is your beef from?' campaign to coincide with the FIFA World Cup.
Beef
New Zealand sheep and beef farm profit is expected to increase 96% to NZ$287,600 per farm for the 2025/2026 year.
There was a sharp (12%) year-on-year fall in the area of barley for harvest 2026 in Great Britain (GB), according to AHDB.
Rural Life
Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper has helped two more students with his agriculture bursary for the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).
The NFU has called on the UK government to postpone the introduction of CBAM over fears that it might further increase fertiliser prices.
A budget of £240m will be distributed to successful applicants of this year's Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme, according to Defra.
Origin Enterprises, the international agri-services group, has reported revenue growth to €1.63 billion in the nine months to April 30.
Sofina Foods has confirmed that a “small number” of Northern Ireland pig supply contracts will not be renewed at the end of this year.
The increased use of obesity medications can be a good news story for the red meat industries, a beef conference has heard today.
UFU is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister Andrew Muir to discuss “uncertainty” facing a number of Northern Ireland pig producers.
England plans to achieve officially bTB-free status by 2038 under a new strategy, with hopes of deploying a vaccine for the disease by 2030.
Environment
Somerset's farms and rural communities are soon to be better protected from the "growing threat of flooding" under a new £50 million package.
Machinery
Kverneland is using Cereals 2026 to introduce a new twin-disc fertiliser spreader to the UK market, called Alentix.
Tesco has called upon industry leaders, retailers and innovators to jointly help farms in transitioning to low carbon fertilisers.
Agriculture was found to be responsible for 31.4% of Northern Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2024, according to DAERA.
The UK’s second largest supermarket said it was only going to stock white eggs in its own brand as they were more environmentally friendly.
NFU Scotland has raised concerns about "agricultural land being taken out of production" to facilitate the development of AI data centres.
