They're still under water, and the floods are creeping closer to his farm buildings. He updates us on the situation on his ...

Gardaí have urged both farmers and the public to be safe during the slurry spreading season. Farmers in all parts of the ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

Difficult conditions for farmers striving to remain compliant with environmental regulations ...

A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,158.50 after cattle slurry was found to be polluting a nearby river. The owners of Manor Farm Dairy, in Hilfield, ...

A new survey of farm service managers and team leads by FRS Co-Op has found that slurry tanks are becoming an issue for farmers who cannot spread during the prolonged wet weather ...

TUV agriculture spokesman Causeway Councillor Allister Kyle has said the slurry ban exposes the ‘folly’ of calendar-based farming rules.

A full month after the slurry spreading season opened in our zone, we haven’t a tanker spread.This has never happened us before. Up to now, if we thought the grass had too much cover or the ...

The closed period for spreading slurry is a condition of the Nutrient Action Programme Regulations (NAP) in Northern Ireland ...

Farm leaders have warned that the prolonged spell of wet weather is placing intense pressure on slurry storage, while inflexible rules on spreading are ...

The farm was given the sanction by SEPA after an investigation into slurry material found around tributaries of the Scouring ...