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Northern View: no let-up in buoyant beef trade
David Wright
Base quotes for prime U-3 grading cattle are up again this week at NI factories.
Northern View: no let-up in buoyant beef trade
Payment entitlements cut by another 6.5%
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Payment entitlements cut by another 6.5%
All entitlement values in NI have had a 6.5% reduction applied in 2025
UFU president not giving up on IHT change
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
UFU president not giving up on IHT change
William Irvine has said UK farm organisations will continue to campaign for changes to proposed inheritance tax reforms.
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Radical TB plan floated by Department
AFBI chief ‘cautious’ on new bovine TB test
Work on a new bovine TB test in England centres around the ability to test vaccinated cattle.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
CCTV proposed for all NI slaughterhouses
Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir has proposed that CCTV is made compulsory in all slaughterhouses in NI.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
TB rates in NI off to a bad start in 2025
The latest TB statistics for January 2025 have been published by DAERA.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
NBA leader warns of UK cattle herd decline
The UK cattle herd has been in slow decline despite strong demand for product.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Moy Park subsumed into Pilgrim’s Europe
In 2024, the owners of Moy Park announced plans to bring its European operations together under one entity.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Milking cows average 3,119gns at Ivy dispersal
David Clarke reports from the dispersal sale of the Ivy herd of pedigree Holstein cattle.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
New venture into rearing dairy-beef calves
Co Down farmer, Derek Robinson, has bought some Hereford-cross drop calves.
2 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Northern Ireland diary of events
Shows, sales and events happening across the NI farming industry over the next week.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Feed deliveries to NI farms down 93,000t
Overall, NI farmers bought 2.56m tonnes of concentrates during 2024, which is 3.5% less than the year previous.
2 April 2025 Northern Ireland