The best Christmas present the Stormont Executive could give the Province’s agricultural sector is to ensure that every farm ...

It comes after surveillance at an abattoir indicated the presence of the disease in two cows from a County Down farm.

Hailing from Lorrha, Conor is a beef farmer and leader of the People in Dairy Programme at Teagasc Moorepark, where his role ...

Very unhappy news for farmers on both sides of the border as it seems very likely that the Bluetongue Virus has arrived on ...

A fifth case of bird flu has been confirmed at a turkey farm, it has been confirmed. A Department of Agriculture spokesman ...

Samples taken from suspected cases of bluetongue in Co. Down are "subject to confirmatory testing" from laboratories in ...

Unfortunately, the bah-humbug of Christmas show spirit has come in the form of two suspected cases of Bluetongue in Northern Ireland, writes Aherla dairy farmer Paula Hynes ...

Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir said he believes the virus has arrived on the island for the first time. | UTV News ...

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has been detected on a turkey farm in Co Cavan, the fifth such outbreak in the country in less than a month.

Department vets in Northern Ireland are investigating a suspected case of Bluetongue virus on a farm near Bangor, Co Down.

The agriculture minister confirmed that two cows in the Bangor area have been culled while awaiting confirmation of the ...