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Third phase of Forest Expansion Scheme now open
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) today announced the opening of the third phase of the Forest Expansion scheme.
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Upcoming CAFRE Equine Courses
Online Equine Behaviour and Welfare
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Midseason grazing management
The midseason grazing period requires careful management for a number of reasons. During spring both grass growth and quality are high, but as the season progresses both usually decline. In addition, there is an increase in the number of rejection sites due to dung pats...
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Management Notes for July 2017
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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Environmental Farming Scheme Wider level agreements issued
Agreements under the ‘Wider’ element of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) have now been issued to farmers, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced.
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Animal transporters should be aware of risks posed by hot weather
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has reminded farmers and hauliers to take extra care to protect livestock when transporting them during warm weather.
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June stocking of Departmental waters
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has stocked the following waters with takeable fish in June 2017:
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Watering can helps student grow richer
A decorative copper watering can has helped Dungannon art student Ellen Nesbitt grow richer.
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Brucellosis Compensation Rates for July 2017
The compensation payable, for reactors and negative in contacts for which notice of intended slaughter is issued in July will be either:
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Need a Level 2 qualification to apply for Young Farmers Payment or Regional Reserve Schemes?
The application period for the Level II Agricultural Business Operations course has been extended to 4pm on 24 August 2017. The classes will begin in early October and run weekly for 20 weeks. All of the classes will be based in one of the three...
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School pupils ‘Feed Their Minds’ at Loughry Campus
Over 890 GCSE Science and Food & Nutrition pupils from 39 schools across Northern Ireland had the opportunity to open their minds to a career in the food and drink industry, through an innovative syllabus support event hosted by Loughry Campus, College of Agriculture, Food...
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Agri-food research funding programme now open for applications
A joint DAERA/DAFM research funding programme is now open for applications from public performing research institutions in NI to apply for funding to participate in joint projects with the Republic of Ireland that will benefit the local agri-food sector.
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Update on Brexit
By Graeme Wilkinson, Head of Brexit Division, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
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First stage of NIFAIS rolled out
The first stage of the new Northern Ireland Food Animal Information System (NIFAIS) is now operational, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced.
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‘Grow Careers’ at Greenmount Campus
CAFREs Greenmount campus has hosted an innovative two-day event to showcase the exciting opportunities a career in horticulture can present. It was targeted at year 11 pupils who are soon making career choices. Many hundreds attended and got a better understanding of horticulture.
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This generation will grasp global opportunities
You are the generation that will realise the emerging opportunities from the global market place, CAFRE students will be told this week during their graduation ceremonies.
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Horticulture qualification bears fruit at Ballinteggart
Mark Troughton, a third generation top fruit grower at Ballinteggart, Portadown, has a passion for working with apples. In order to continue growing apples on the family enterprise, he needed to diversify from primary production and understand more about the business of fruit growing.
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‘Operation WildFire’ to investigate recent countryside arson
A new joint operation to investigate hundreds of wildfires started deliberately in Northern Ireland’s countryside last month has been launched today.
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CAFRE course is ‘outstanding’ in its field
CAFRE’s “outstanding” Level II agricultural courses are celebrating their 3,000th graduate.
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CAFRE brings a little French Charcuterie to Northern Ireland!
CAFRE Loughry Campus has recently teamed up with Chris Moorby, School of Artisan Foods, Wellbeck, Nottinghamshire to extend the knowledge of charcuterie within Northern Ireland.