Tillage
Tillage: IFA meets Boortmalt over forward buying price
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) National Grain Committee chair, Kieran McEvoy, has confirmed that the association has recently met with Boortmalt...
Grain Prices
Tillage
Forward grain prices enter very dangerous territory - IGG
Irish Grain Growers (IGG) chairman Bobby Miller is deeply concerned about the direction of travel forward grain prices are now...
Tillage News
Tirlán to pay over €100m for quality grain from harvest 2022
Tirlán, formally known as Glanbia Co-op and Glanbia Ireland, has today (Wednesday, October 5), confirmed it will pay over €100...
Tillage
Harvest 2022 all but completed
According to Teagasc’s Michael Hennessy, Harvest 2022 is all but completed in many parts of the country. However, not all...
Tillage News
What are the prospects for international grain prices?
The latest Tillage Edge Podcast looks at the prospects for international grain prices over the coming months. The broadcast includes...
Agri-Business
War in Ukraine: Major consequences for European farming and food
The impact of the war in Ukraine on European farming will be felt for a significant period of time to...
Tillage
Is forward selling grain an effective debt management tool?
Forward selling grain can play a role in minimising cereal growers’ financial risk exposure, particularly during a period of inflated...
Tillage Technical
Strengthening grain prices will ‘deaden’ the impact of nitrogen price rises
Teagasc’s Richie Hackett has confirmed that strengthening grain prices will, to some extent, “deaden” the impact of the nitrogen (N)...
N.Ireland
Grain and feed market volatility set to continue amid weather conditions
Grain and feed market volatility looks set to continue over the coming months as pressure persists on global supply chains,...
Tillage
Did you forward sell grain in 2021?
The decision to forward sell grain is one that comes up every growing season for Irish tillage farmers, seeking to...
Tillage
Glanbia announces grain prices for Harvest 2021
Glanbia has announced its grain prices for Harvest 2021 – revealing that it will pay its members €210/t for green...
Tillage
Details of Glanbia's grain transport allowance announced
Glanbia has announced details of its transport allowance for 2018. Following the announcement of the company’s harvest grain prices in October,...
Tillage
49% of tillage farmers see world grain prices as a threat - survey
49% of Irish tillage farmers see world grain prices as the biggest long-term threat to their farm businesses. That was...
Tillage
€133/t barley price for non-members of Glanbia; transport allowance changes afoot
Growers who supplied cereals, oilseed rape and pulses to Glanbia this harvest and who are not members of the co-op...
Tillage
'Low grain prices may leave growers unable to cover production costs'
The prospect of a fifth consecutive year of low grain prices will see many growers struggle to cover production costs,...
Tillage
Is the Irish tillage industry facing a cliff edge?
Prolonged periods of wet weather in recent weeks have seen the 2017 harvest stall in many parts of the country....
Tillage
Will cereal producers break even this year?
After a relatively good start, the majority of combines have ceased working in recent days – at least for the...
Tillage
'Feed barley price of €160/t needed'
Feed barley needs to be at a base price of €160/t and wheat €15-18/t above that, according to the Irish Grain Growers...
