The Northern Ireland Grain Trade Association was founded in 1966 and represents traders, manufacturers, processors, distributors, brokers and service providers who are involved in the Northern Ireland agricultural supply trade.
The Food Fortress scheme developed with the Queen’s University Institute for Global Food Security gives NIGTA a world leading position in the field of feed assurance.
Our association has been an active contributor to the work of the Greenhouse Gas Action Group. This project has produced a plan for sustainable farm production based on efficient use of inputs providing a model for responsible growth and more profitable farming.
The Grain and Feed Trade’s cycle relay has been very well supported in Northern Ireland with £5,300 raised for Rural Support at their cycle event in...
The continued dry weather and poor growing conditions have created an unprecedented demand for feed materials to compensate for the shortage of grass...
The implications of the UK withdrawal from the EU are the subject of much speculation and the Agri-Supply trade, like most sectors of our economy are...
While the province is still firmly clasped in the grip of winter most farmers will be hoping for some spring like weather very soon. The early start...
NIGTA Members visited Queens University in September to look around the Global Food Security Unit. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
NIGTA Members visited Queens University in September to look around the Global Food Security Unit. Photograph: Columba O'Hare
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
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
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
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.
