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Chairperson, Willeen Montgomery, welcomed members and friends. (Pic supplied by Six Counties NI Dexter Group)

Six Counties NI Dexter Group enjoy Sperrins farm walk By The Newsroom

DeLaval has appointed Stephen Moore Farm Machinery Ltd as the sole dealer for the East of Northern Ireland. Pictured, Stephen Moore and Alison Moore. Image: DeLaval

DeLaval dealer expansion By The Newsroom

Mr Hugh Barr MBE. Image: Hugh Wade & Son Funeral Directors

Passing of three times world ploughing champion Hugh Barr MBE Joanne Knox

Any farm businesses that are unsure about their analysis results can also contact the AFBI SNHS helpdesk on 028 9025 5212 or E: snhs@afbini.gov.uk

AFBI clarifies ‘Soil Nutrient Health Scheme’ soil analysis code G By The Newsroom

Trevor Lockhart MBE, Fane Valley Group, chief executive with Patrick Savage, Fane Valley Co-operative Society, chairman

Fane Valley celebrate 120 years as farming co-operative By The Newsroom

During the next three to four weeks, RPS will prioritise those farm businesses with lowland and intensively managed fields as these are more likely to receive nutrients soon after the closed period ends.

Update on DAERA’s Zone 1 Soil Nutrient Health Scheme Joanne Knox

During peak sampling up to 12,000 fields per week will be sampled and processed!

First phase of soil sampling scheme well underway

Minister praises Zone 1 farmers who have registered for the Soil Nutrient Health... Joanne Knox

Ballyloughan Nikkovarak

Six counties NI Dexter group pedigree online sale Ruth Rodgers

Farmland prices in an upward curve By The Newsroom

Image: Met Office

Yellow weather warning issued for parts of Northern Ireland Joanne Knox

overall winners Hillsborough YFC

Hillsborough YFC win ten pin bowling competition Staff reporter

Conor O’Kane (left), Senior Partnership Manager with Marie Curie joins Lynsey Evans from Henderson Group and retailer, Peter McBride to celebrate SPAR NI retailers’ raising over £500,000 for Marie Curie since the partnership began in 2017. The half a million has gone towards a huge UK-wide total of £2,000,000 announced this week.

SPAR retailers raise £500k for Marie Curie By The Newsroom

Six Counties NI Dexter Cattle Group Training Day By The Newsroom

Time for a break: Mrs Rosemary Getty of Steeple Road, Kells, and her daughter Karen left, and neice, Elizabeth McAllister, take a break for refreshments at the Winter Fair at the King's Hall in December 1988. Picture: Trevor Dickson/Farming Life/News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of December 1950 Darryl Armitage

Planting 1 million trees for a greener future

NI Water’s ambition, to plant over 1 million trees over the next 10 years is underway. As the second biggest landowner in Northern Ireland, NI Water is delivering a large-scale planting programme across 11,300 hectares of land

NI Water plants million trees for a greener future By The Newsroom

At James McEvoy's farm on the Hilltown Road in Newcastle, Co Down, 1968. Picture courtesy of Northern Ireland Historical Photographical Society Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Northern-Ireland-Historical-Photographical-Society-225424414683936)

BYGONE DAYS: Even a local parish priest was unable to halt ‘poteen’ being brewe... Darryl Armitage

Chestnutt Animal Feeds, based at Stranocum in Co Antrim, is in the throes of completing a new store. The facility, which has a floor area of 17,000 square metres, will be used for the storage of bulk feeds and pallets. The fit-out of the new building featured the use of bunker walls, which can provide total flexibility when it comes to utilising the store. The precast units were manufactured by Ballymena-based Moore Concrete. Chestnutt’s operations director Norman McConaghie and Moore’s Nicola McAdam recently toured the new facility.

Major investment project at Stranocum By The Newsroom

Gravel tunnelling in progress using 10 -15mm clean quarry chips

DAERA advice on improving soil productivity through drainage Community Reporter

Weed-wiping in Eden Burn catchment near Ballymoney, County Antrim. L-R Victor Chestnutt (UFU) and Roy Taylor (NI Water).

‘Stop and think about the water you drink - Apply herbicides safely’ By The Newsroom

Final call for funding to benefit local farming communities By The Newsroom