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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...
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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...
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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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The importance of dairy cow body condition at drying off
Dr Jane Sayers, CAFRE Dairy Development Adviser, continues on from her guidance in how to dry off dairy cows with a focus on body condition scoring (BCS).
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August stocking of Departmental waters
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has stocked the following waters with takeable fish in August 2021:
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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...
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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.
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Poots announces new £750k investment in Rural Micro Capital Grant Scheme
Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots MLA has today announced that a new £750k tranche of the Rural Micro Capital Grant Scheme (RMCGS) will open for applications on Friday 1 October 2021.
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CAFRE Level 2 Apprenticeship in the Equine Industry
Love working with horses? Apprentices, this is your chance to learn and earn!
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New £80,000 park trail will improve health and wellbeing for people of Lisburn - Poots
A new £80,000 park trail will allow the people of Lisburn to enjoy the outdoors and get closer to nature, resulting in improved health and wellbeing, Environment Minister Edwin Poots MLA has said.
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Brucellosis compensation rates for October 2021
The compensation payable, for reactors and negative in contacts for which notice of intended slaughter is issued in October 2021 will be either:
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Study at CAFRE to cultivate a career in Land-Based Engineering
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) is well known for its campus in Antrim which delivers agriculture and land-based courses. Greenmount Campus offers students leaving school with GCSE qualifications the opportunity to...
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Enniskillen Recycling Centre benefits from £725,000 investment
Environment Minister Edwin Poots MLA has visited a Household Recycling Centre in Enniskillen to see improvements made following a £725,122 grant from his Department’s Household Waste Recycling Collaborative Change Programme.
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Poots plants tree for NI centenary
As part of the Northern Ireland centenary celebrations, DAERA Minister Edwin Poots, MLA has visited the Scouts NI centre at Crawfordsburn Country Park in County Down.
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Poots invests in new climate change project ahead of COP26
School pupils and community groups are set to join the fight against climate change thanks to a new project funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
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Poots announces Agriculture and Climate Change conference in advance of COP26
Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Edwin Poots MLA, has announced that his Department will co-host an agriculture and climate change event on 27 October 2021, in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference...