Northern Ireland Grain Trade Association

FIRMER PRICES FOR FEED MATERIALS

The new decade has started with a significant hardening of prices across a range of feed materials. A combination of technical factors are in play...

NIGTA FACES THE CHALLENGES ...

The dawning of a new year (and a new decade) brings hope - much needed after a prolonged period of confusion, uncertainty and political turmoil....

REGIONAL FEED MEETING

The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) which represents the agri supply trade throughout the United Kingdom has recently completed a series...

BREXIT CHALLENGES

The Brexit withdrawal agreement to which government are now committed will have a significant impact on businesses in Northern Ireland and unlike the...

£5000 RAISED FOR FIELDS OF LIFE

Fields of Life was selected as the Northern Ireland Grain Trade Association's charity for 2019. This years NIGTA annual dinner raised £5000 for the...

TRAINEES WALK THE SUPPLY CHAIN

The growth in demand for animal feeds to support the rapidly expanding livestock sector in Northern Ireland has presented career opportunities for...

SAVING THE WORLD

Climate Change, Global Warming and the damage the human race is perceived to be doing to the environment are hot topics at the moment. Every news...

GLOBAL GRAIN MARKETS WELL SUPPLIED

The turbulent tone of grain markets in recent weeks has abated somewhat with the recent USDA reports allaying concerns about the American maize crop....

NIGTA Members visited Queens University in September to look around the Global Food Security Unit. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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NIGTA Members visited Queens University in September to look around the Global Food Security Unit. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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Doris Leeman, Secretary, NIGTA and Claudine Heron, Past President, NIGTA chat to new members of the Association Michael and Gail Redmond at the Grain Trade Quarterly Meeting. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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Phelim O'Neill, Chief Executive, NI Meat Exporters Association was the Guest Speaker at the NI Grain Trade Association's Quarterly Meeting and is pictured with Owen Brennan, NIGTA President and Robin Irvine, NIGTA, Chief Executive. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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Visotors to the NIGTA Seminar at Greenmount included from left: Wallace Henry, Rectify; John Kelley, AIC and George Starrett, John Thompson and Sons. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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Visitors to Antrim for the NIGTA Roadshow on Quality Assurance. From left: Alistair Glover, James Glover and Sons; Jane Bond, R and J Lyness; Ian McWhirter, Ian S McWhirter and Paul Sloan, Tullyherron Feeds.
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