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Farm Family Key Skills – you can help provide lifesaving skills
As part of the Farm Family Key Skills (FFKS) scheme, over 500 farm family members and farm employees have attended First Aid Awareness training since March 2018. Up to 100 accidents which need medical attention occur each month on Northern Ireland farms. This training is...
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Environmental Farming Scheme now open
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), has confirmed that the second tranche of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Wider level opened for applications today (20 August 2018). Applications to the scheme must be made online. The closing date for applications is 21...
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Plan your autumn with CAFRE equine courses and veterinary talks
The new suite of equine courses and events being offered by the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) throughout autumn are now open for registration.
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New qualification: ‘Delivering Training’ - A short course in training- for supervisors
Most of us who have taken on a new supervisory or management position discover we have ‘staff training’ responsibilities.
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NI beef now on sale in the Philippines
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that the first consignment of Northern Irish beef is now on sale in the Philippines.
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Loughry’s food courses are first choice for school leavers
If you are getting your results over the next few days and thinking about your future, this is the perfect time to check out what Loughry Campus, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, has to offer at its careers advice evening on Thursday 23...
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Careers advice events at CAFRE
Getting exam results can be a very stressful time - perhaps you did better than you thought or perhaps it didn’t just go to plan.
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Colebrooke and Strule Soil Testing and Training Initiative
If your farm is within the designated sub-catchments of the Colebrooke & Strule river systems in Fermanagh and Tyrone? Did you receive a letter from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), inviting you to register for the Soil Testing and Training Initiative?
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Effective grain processing when harvesting Wholecrop cereals for silage
Many farmers facing forage shortfalls for the coming winter following the drought conditions of recent weeks have been considering harvesting standing cereal crops as wholecrop silage. 4.5 ha (11.25 acres) of LG Sundance winter wheat was harvested as wholecrop wheat silage on 1 August 2018...
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Prepare now for Environmental Farming Scheme (Wider) opening on 20 August 2018
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that a second tranche of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Wider will open for applications on Monday 20 August 2018.
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CAFRE Agricultural Business Operations (Level II) closing date is fast approaching
The CAFRE Agricultural Business Operations (Level II) Course is currently open for enrolments and will close at 4:00pm on Friday 24 August 2018.
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Mourne Herring Fishery licences available from September
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that licences for the Mourne Herring Fishery will be available from 3 September 2018.
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Paddocks – “the only way to graze sheep”
Enda McLernon, along with his father Peter run a flock of approximately 200 ewes outside Randalstown on the shores of Lough Neagh.
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Managing and building forage stocks in areas suffering from drought
Significant rainfall has occurred in most of areas in the East and South of Northern Ireland affected by drought conditions.
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Management Notes for August 2018
Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE). CAFRE is a college within the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
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DAERA seeks views on a future agricultural policy framework for NI
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is to engage with the wider farming, food and environmental sectors on a possible future agricultural policy framework for Northern Ireland (NI)
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Brucellosis Compensation Rates for August 2018
The compensation payable, for reactors and negative in contacts for which notice of intended slaughter is issued in August will be either:
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Soil structure and avoiding compaction
Soil structure and its degree of development are critical factors in determining the productivity of any soil.
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Environmental Farming Scheme – A timely reminder!
Most Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) participants have claimed for the first year of their EFS agreement on the Single Application Form (SAF) in May and, like all other area-based schemes, inspections follow claims with the first EFS inspections now under way.
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Northern Ireland local authority collected municipal waste management statistics released
Provisional Northern Ireland local authority collected municipal waste management statistics for January to March have been published today by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.