College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) is a public tertiary level land-based college offering training in agriculture, food technology, horticulture, equine and agri-business.
[citation needed] Operating at three sites in Northern Ireland,[1] the college is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) of the Northern Ireland Executive.
[2][citation needed] It is an associate member of the Landex consortium of "Land Based Colleges Aspiring to Excellence".
[3] CAFRE has three campuses in Northern Ireland,[4] which began as individual colleges.
[5] In January 1907, Ulster Dairy School was opened by the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Loughry.