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The rain of the past few weeks has stopped any further winter sowing and estimates now put winter cereal area at 50% of…
The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society (ITLUS) is celebrating 50 years in 2019 and over those years the tillage industry has faced…
Speaking at the New Generation Agriculture conference in Dunboyne Castle this week, Graeme Sait talked about the importance of humus in the soil.…
This year, Diageo will use approximately 140,000t of Irish barley across its entire range – that includes malt, barley for roasting and barley…
Prices for agricultural inputs such as feeding stuffs, fertiliser and fuel are set to decrease or remain steady in 2020, according to analysis…
Evan McDonnell from Co. Carlow has been named as the 2019 Malting Barley Grower of the Year by Boortmalt and Diageo. The malting…
This month will see the largest shipment of UK grain exported this season from Bristol Port. 64,000t of barley is destined from Saudi…
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is continuing to investigate the anomaly between crop (planting) area figures received by AgriLand…
The dramatic fall in income from the cereals sector of some 24% for 2019 was described as a stand-out figure for a sector…
Minister Michael Creed’s decision to seek a derogation from the European Commission on the 3-crop rule has been welcomed by the Irish Farmers’…
It seems this country’s dependence on, or interest in, maize is increasing. Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that 1.2 million…
The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society (ITLUS) is continuing its 50-year anniversary celebrations at its winter conference this December. The theme of…
Barley imports from Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2019 were running behind 2017 and 2018 at the end of September. However, deliveries…
Winter planting of cereal crops remains at a standstill here in Ireland as wet weather dominated the week and sent land into further…
Two re-purposed shipping containers, fitted with a ‘Farmony’ – 55m² in size, can produce 55,000 heads of lettuce per year or 408 trays of…
The last few days have allowed for some drying in our soils, but this is from a very wet base. Pockets of the…
This week there was a lot of talk about climate change in the national media. The Government’s intention to plant 440 million trees…
There wasn’t much of a shake on grain markets this week as LIFFE, MATIF and CBOT all stayed similar to last week. However,…
