Agri-Business
Grain merchants should match the prices set by co-ops for grain and oats from harvest 2022, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said.
Demand for concentrated feed this month is reportedly up to four times higher than volumes sought during the same period last summer.
Tillage
Winter oilseed rape has been performing very well and has been described as one of the better stories so far this harvest.
Harvesting is well underway in the south east, with winter oats now starting to come onto the weigh bridges in the last few days.
Combines have been rolling the last number of weeks, with quite a bit of the country's winter barley crop now harvested.
Grain merchants are busy on the weigh bridges, with tillage farmers bringing in crops of winter barley as harvest 20117 ramps up.
