N.Ireland
All the political parties in Northern Ireland are on the same page regarding the future funding requirements of farming.
Agri-Business
The backlog of pigs to be slaughtered could reach as many as 24,000 in just a month, according to representatives from Northern Ireland's pork industry.
Lack of investment in Northern Ireland's waste infrastructure has left the industry emitting higher volumes of environmentally-damaging greenhouse gases, such as methane.
Members of Stormont's Agriculture Committee visited a farm in Co. Tyrone to see for themselves the work local farmers are doing for the environment.
MLAs heard the first details of Northern Ireland's new strategy to tackle bovine TB on Thursday (July 8) - but it will be a few days before details emerge.
Environment
Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has slammed targets set in the private member's Climate Change Bill as "complete nonsense".
Northern Ireland's agricultural industry has commissioned an impact assessment report to evaluate how ambitions for NI to achieve net-zero by 2045 will affect farming.
Northern Ireland's dairy industry would have to be slashed back to production levels last seen in 1946 in order to achieve net-zero ambitions.
Scientists have warned it will be "extremely challenging" for Northern Ireland to reduce its methane emissions from agriculture in order to meet net-zero ambitions without a reduction in livestock numbers.
Northern Ireland is falling short on tree planting levels required to pave the way to net-zero ambitions by more than 90%.
The chairman of the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) has told Northern Ireland politicians he is "not prepared" to tell the region to do things that, "we know, they cannot do".
The department is unlikely to take direct action, such as introducing culls or flocks restrictions, over a recent spate of outbreaks of poultry disease infectious laryngotracheitis (or ILT) in Northern Ireland.
A 'coded report' regarding the safety of port staff was made to Crimestoppers Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has alleged.
There are to be no 'special arrangements' made for agriculture in either of the two Climate Change Bills currently going through Stormont.
Ambitions to upgrade Northern Ireland's recommended 82% reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero will cost an additional £900 million a year to achieve.
Declan McAleer has called on the Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs to develop an accurate 'carbon calculator' to help farms prepare..
NI Minister Poots told officials he was "not convinced" police fully understand the perceived threats towards port checkpoint staff.
NIs Department of Agriculture has warned permanent customs facilities for agri-food produce will now not be ready until at least 2023.
