Tillage
A ban on palm kernal, palm oil, GMO soya products and GMO maize has been called for by the Irish Grain Growers' Group.
Agri-Business
214,021t of flour were imported in to the Republic of Ireland in 2018. This flour was valued at €80,191,000 or €374.69/t.
Figures from the CSO, published by AgriLand this week, showed a clear dependency on the UK for imported products such as barley and wheat.
Data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that animal foodstuffs were imported from 67 countries in 2017 and 2018.
This week AgriLand published figures on commodities imported into Ireland for animal feed. Here are some products you might not think of.
Wheat imports to this country in 2018 - which included a drought and shortage of grass - increased by a massive 40% from the year before.
A total of 372,274t of barley (unmilled) were imported into Ireland in 2018, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
