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Civil servants in Northern Ireland have given the first official outline of how new farm support payments could look in the region post-2021. Rosemary Agnew, director of the department’s Brexit Food and Farming Group, told the Stormont Agriculture Committee on Thursday (January 28) the main form of support would likely be a ‘Basic Income Support Payment’. “[It will be] very, very similar, but a simplified version of what the Basic Payment Scheme is,” she said. “And that would be a basic resilience payment. [The minister has also begun to outline his] thoughts around bringing for...

A LORAWAN aerial mounted within a farm steading FARM SENSOR technology is the focus of the latest digital farm pilot project from SmartRural. A subsidiary of co-op umbrella organisation, SAOS, the SmartRural project aims to demonstrate how readily available, cost-effective, digital tools can gather and use data from around even the most remote farms, to inform decision making, manage risk, and improve operations and outcomes. Its proprietary LoRaWAN network is a radio communication system which receives data from simple, battery-powered sensors up to 15km away, through a base station in...

>> shepard: at least seven people died in the earthquake in italy and thousands of folks reportedly can't get back to their homes. now we are getting a better look at the extent of the damage. the quake was centered in a part of northern intlely that's home to several cheese factories. a farming group reports it damaged as many as 400,000 wheels of cheese worth more than $3 million. wow. the quake and its aftershocks also knocked down a clock tower and rattled several century's old buildings. one survivor said quote our history has collapsed. a gunman kills a city bus driver and sheriff's depu...

While he was at camp david, president trump was asked directly if he is still committed to meeting with robert mueller and his team if asked. the president said yeah, and reiterated there has been no collusion. it's not clear if that yeah was a definitive answer or an acknowledgement that a question had been asked. now in just a short time from now, president trump is going to depart for nashville where he will be speaking to a farming group. we will try to get some questions and some answers to all of this when he departs. >> and in fact, kristin, we've got that exchange from saturday at camp...