Organisation: Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

business

Farmers warned over bluetongue disease

FARMERS were urged not to import animals from any country or region affected by the bluetongue disease.

business

Warning over bluetongue risk as two cases confirmed in Britain

business

Bio-fuels production drives up food prices

news

Second case of foot and mouth

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Coughlan pleased British samples prove negative

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Bird flu move ‘not ban on British imports’

THE measures introduced last weekend by the Department of Agriculture and Food following an outbreak of a mild strain of avian flu on a farm in Wales is not an import ban on poultry from Britain.

Tue, 29 May, 2007

Govt reviews contingency plans following UK H5N1 outbreak

Officials from the Department of Agriculture met this morning to review the latest outbreak of bird flu in the UK.

Sat, 03 Feb, 2007

Scottish MP added to Hain's NI team

A Scottish MP has been added to Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain’s ministerial team, it was announced today.

Tue, 09 May, 2006

IFA calls for ban on potato imports

THE Irish Farmers Association yesterday called for a ban on all potato imports until such time as the full extent of the ring rot outbreak in Wales is known and measures are put in place here to deal with the situation.

Tue, 18 Nov, 2003

Farmers await foot-and-mouth test results

Farmers were today anxiously waiting to discover the outcome of tests on a suspected case of foot-and-mouth at a British farm.

Wed, 27 Feb, 2002