Tillage
Dairygold has finalised its cereal prices for 2024, and has said its growers provided excellent quality grain despite challenging conditions.
Agri-Business
Dairygold has confirmed that it has finalised the grain prices it will pay cereal growers for the 2022 harvest.
Rural Life
The FAO's food price index which measures international food commodity prices, declined slightly in June this year for the third month in a row.
Tillage News
Dairygold has this week finalised its 2021 harvest cereal prices. The company said that...
Dairygold has finalised its 2018 cereal prices following a harvest which has been completed two weeks earlier than normal.
Cereal yields varied through the harvest – early in the season winter barley crops were reported to range from 5.5t/ha to over 10t/ha.
Agri Politics
A drop in dairy product prices and vegetable oils has driven world food commodity prices to their lowest July value in six years.
Major food commodity prices hit a six-year low in May as cereal prices fell substantially even though this year's harvest looks favourable, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) says.
One bad harvest, anywhere in the world, is all that it would take to send cereal prices rocketing
International oil prices are unlikely to strengthen in the near future, according to the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA).
The overall production of cereals for the country in 2014 is estimated to be close on 2.5 million tonnes, up 7% on 2013 according to Teagasc.
Pig/Poultry
Ireland’s poultry sector is set to achieve export-led growth for the first time in its history
Cereal prices are expected to rise in 2015, but exceptional yields achieved in 2013 and 2014 might not be repeated in 2015 according to Teagasc
