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Man In Northern Ireland Takes His Sheep Shopping The store's sign read no dogs — it didn't mention sheep. The man who took his sheep into the store quickly found out that sheep were also not ...
The total sheep population of Northern Ireland is around 2M head. This declined by 3% in 2023. “And these trends have been similarly reflected in all of the world’s main sheep producing regions.
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Beef and sheep farmers struggling
FALLING beef prices and a failure to support sheep farmers are causing huge anxiety and frustration across Northern Ireland ...
Additional funding for sheep can be found outside of the £300M annual budget that has been ring fenced by the Stormont ...
Large numbers of visitors from Donegal are expected to attend the upcoming Sheep NI event, taking place in Co Derry.
Storms last month in the U.K. killed at least 43,000 sheep and goats in Northern Ireland, after animals were stranded by snowdrifts at the time in early spring when lambs are typically born.
The project concluded in June 2023, when findings confirmed how widespread sheep scab is across Northern Ireland. They also showed a significant level of interest in dealing with the disease, ...
A rise in farm incomes in Northern Ireland in 2024 has been welcomed. Estimates indicate the total income from farming in the ...
Farming is Northern Ireland’s biggest industry, ... Sheep and cattle account for a further 25% of the total, poultry and eggs 18%, pigs 8%, and horticulture and crops 8%.