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Minister addresses Protocol with Eustice and Frost
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has met with Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice and Minister of State, Lord Frost at the Balmoral Show to stress the importance of the agri-food sector and the impact the Northern Ireland Protocol is having...
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Extra £15.5m funding for agri-food sector - Poots tells Balmoral Show
Northern Ireland’s farm businesses are set to benefit from an additional £15m, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced today.
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Catch crop for Samuel!
The benefits of crop rotation have been well known and used for generations. Our forefathers where doing this continually and it would be quite common for a livestock farm to plough the farm yard manure (FYM) down into the soil to prepare for planting potatoes...
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John takes the guess work out of grazing
The resumption of face to face delivery for Business Development Groups (BDG’s) has been welcomed by members as it has afforded them the opportunity to visit the CAFRE Technology Demonstration Farms (TDF’s) to review the new technologies that have been implemented successfully on these units.
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Poots - Green Growth is the way forward
Minster for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Edwin Poots MLA says that developing and defending our natural assets is key to creating a resilient economy and a healthy environment and should be at the heart of future Government policies and business strategies.
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Join us at CAFRE’s Equine Virtual Open Day Event
You are invited to join us on Facebook Live for the CAFRE’s Equine Virtual Open Day Event on Monday 4 October at 7pm.
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Poots previews 2021 Balmoral Show
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has previewed this year’s Balmoral Show ahead of the doors opening to the public tomorrow for four days filled with food, livestock, entertainment, competitions and fun.
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Did you study food or work at Loughry?
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invites past and current Loughry Food students to join an online Alumni event on Monday 27 September at 8pm. Former staff are also warmly invited.
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Incentives for equine industry employers
Are you an employer in the equine industry? Did you know that you are eligible to participate in the New Apprenticeship Incentive Scheme? Your business could benefit from the financial and practical advantages of having well trained, motivated and practical employees.
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Balmoral Show: showcasing the very best of agri-food
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots is looking forward to this year’s Balmoral Show, which will showcase the very best of Northern Ireland’s agri-food and rural sectors.
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CAFRE supports Matthews Farm to Fork
The College of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), Loughry Campus has lead responsibility for people development and knowledge and technology transfer programmes in the food processing and supply industry.
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DAERA Invites applications for Sheep Technology Demonstration Farms
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is currently establishing a network of Technology Demonstration Farms [TDFs] and the next application window is open.
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Healthy Feet, Healthy Cows
College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Dairying Technologist Dr Alastair Boyle suggests that: “healthy feet in the dairy herd can be achieved through regular mobility scoring, prompt treatment of lameness and implementation of preventative measures.”
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Banbridge beef finishers visit James Henderson’s Technology Demonstration Farm (TDF)
For their second on farm meeting of the year, the Banbridge beef finishing Business Development Group, along with their AI Services Facilitator Adam Jones, visited Co Down TDF farmer James Henderson.
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Young people key to tackling environmental issues – Poots
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has described the work primary school pupils are doing to improve our environment as inspirational.
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Permanent solutions needed for pet checks
DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA has instructed his officials to indefinitely allow all pet dogs, cats and ferrets to travel from Great Britain (GB) to Northern Ireland (NI) without checks while negotiations between the UK government (UKG) and European Union (EU) continue.
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European Innovation Partnerships driving innovation
CAFRE recently hosted the first meeting of the European Innovation Partnership Forum which represents the seven Operational Groups who were successful in receiving funding under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Scheme.
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Preparations for autumn on beef and sheep farms
After a very changeable grass growing summer, the last few weeks of more favourable weather has been very much welcomed across all farms. Pleasant weather conditions for harvesting and the tidying up of surplus silage has helped us forget the drop in grass growth during...
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The CAFRE Hill Farm - integrating environmental and livestock management since 1963
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise’s Hill Farm is situated in the district of Glenwherry in the Antrim Hills between Ballymena and Larne.
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Vaccine clinics announced for Balmoral Show
The Health and Agriculture Ministers have jointly urged the farming and rural community to protect themselves from Covid-19 through vaccination.