Tillage
Sugar: The worst performing commodity of 2018 to date
A reduced demand for sugar worldwide, combined with increased production, has made the commodity the worst performing on the market...
Tillage
A reduced demand for sugar worldwide, combined with increased production, has made the commodity the worst performing on the market...
Tillage
Winter barley harvest is almost wrapped up across the country, while farmers with winter oat crops are busy harvesting at...
Opinion
For the past number of years, ‘dairy; dairy; dairy’ has been pushed in front of farmers and all parts of...
Dairy
Wholecrop silage is a very popular option for farmers this season, as fodder stocks remain low. Farmers have been busy...
Tillage
Drummonds first set up its agricultural division here in Ireland in 1972. In one way it’s like any other agri-merchant;...
Tillage
Many tillage farmers and contractors have started to harvest or are harvesting winter barley and oats at present; farmers are...
Tillage
Grain price can be described as positive at present. Farmers who delivered winter barley in the past number of weeks...
Tillage
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is calling on supply chain partners, including big and small retailers, to support local growers...
Tillage
As winter crops are removed from fields early this year, tillage farmers may get an opportunity to plant catch crops....
Tillage
The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) has requested that the Government come up with fodder solutions. The group counts catch...
N.Ireland
‘Soil Health’ is a relatively new term that is being discussed more and more by farmers, growers, agronomists and researchers....
Tillage
Up to 98mm of rain is needed in some areas of the country to bring soil moisture levels back to...
Tillage
Based in Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford, Flahavan’s – the sixth-generation family business – has moved with the times and it looks to...
Tillage
There is “no guarantee” Irish farmers will be able to rely on UK straw imports to cover shortages this winter,...
Tillage
The price of potatoes “will be significantly higher this year” according to the Country Crest co-founder, Michael Hoey. Speaking to...
Agri-Business
Dairygold has launched a series of measures to address the current and longer-term issues relating to the summer drought which...
Tillage
Grain prices continued to drop back on Monday (July 16). This was also the case last week, when prices dropped...
Tillage
Ireland needs to reach the point of depending less on imported proteins and using more of the meals and grains...