Tillage
Angry tillage farmers protest in Drogheda over grain imports
Farmers held a protest in Drogheda today over the continued importation of grain and poor prices for cereals this summer. Speaking...
Tillage
Farmers held a protest in Drogheda today over the continued importation of grain and poor prices for cereals this summer. Speaking...
Tillage
Grain farmers are struggling to make financial sense of cereal farming and that political intervention is needed on a number...
Tillage
Straw has significant fertiliser value in terms of P and K and will add that to soil organic matter helping...
Tillage
France could be in for its worst harvest in 30 years, according to latest crop updates. The poor weather conditions...
Tillage
Grain farmers staged a protest in Foynes Port in Co. Limerick this morning over the importation of barley by a number of...
Tillage
The IFA’s latest grain market update presented a bleak outlook for tillage farmers this year. According to the IFA, early...
Dairy
High grain prices may in the past have been seen by dairy farmers as universally a negative, however in the...
Tillage
Winter crops are generally in good shape and well developed in the EU due to the mild winter conditions, according...
Tillage
In many parts of Europe and particularly key arable regions the annual hardening to winter crops has not occurred. Hardening...
Pig/Poultry
A projected fall in EU pig numbers will reduce the demand for feed within that sector over the coming months,”...
Tillage
The 2015 harvest, despite some weather delays, has now been completed with good reports on the yield and quality fronts,...
Tillage
Current grain price offers are below the cost of production and this will accelerate the wind-down of cereal production as...
Beef
With a new government instigating reforms, and a pivot towards Europe, could the so-called ‘bread-basket’ of Europe offers competitive grain...
Opinion
The last fortnight has seen a very strong media focus on the potential impact of greening on Irish agriculture. And,...
Tillage
Winter crops across the northern hemisphere are generally well established and in reasonable condition, according to the Home Grown Cereals...
Dairy
Compound feed per cow increased at a faster annual rate than milk output per cow since 1990 despite decreases in...
Tillage
Cereal prices are expected to rise in 2015, but Irish tillage farmers will be aware that the exceptional yields achieved...
Tillage
A wet summer in many regions of the EU has meant a greater proportion of wheat is available for feed,...