Archive News 2007 April to June

CAFRE
22 June 2007

A DARD / Industry Renewables Open Day, to be held at CAFRE’s Loughry Campus on Thursday 23August 2007, was recently launched by the Agriculture Minister, Michelle Gildernew.

DARD Reporter
25 June 2007

Agriculture Minister, Michelle Gildernew MP MLA, has officially launched the Pig Grading and Information System (PiGIS) at Greenmount Campus.

CAFRE
6 June 2007

I would like to invite you to a cut flower practical training course beginning 7 June 2007 designed for anyone wishing to learn more about starting a new cut flower growing enterprise. The venue for the course will be Classroom 18, Horticulture Development Centre in Greenmount Campus, Antrim.

DARD Reporter
25 May 2007

Farmers and growers are currently receiving forms for the 2007 Agricultural and Horticultural Census. Conducted annually at the beginning of June, the Census serves as the only uniform and comprehensive information source on agricultural production and the farm labour force in Northern Ireland.

17 May 2007

Michelle Gildernew - Minister for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development gives a speech at the Balmoral Show.

10 May 2007
By DARD

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development wishes to remind farmers that the closing date for submitting their 2007 Single Farm Applications is Tuesday 15 May. Applications received by the DARD after 15 May and before 9 June will incur late penalties. Those received after 9 June will be rejected.

22 April 2007
By Johnny Caldwell
BBC News website

Farmers in Northern Ireland or anyone else for that matter may never look at a jar of mustard - be it Dijon, Bavarian or plain old English - the same again. A host of golden mustard plants makes for a spectacular view.

13 April 2007
University of Ulster
Dr. Alan Cooper

The University of Ulster will be carrying out a major research project this summer, on the distribution and types of wildlife habitat in the Northern Ireland countryside. The research will investigate how the countryside has changed over the past 25 years.