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Handy grain temperature app from the French

August 10, 2019

Javelot is a new company supplying a grain temperature tracker which sends temperature data to a smart-phone or computer. AgriLand caught up with…

Graindex comes to Ireland this weekend

August 8, 2019

Tillage

Graindex – the online grain marketplace that allows farmers to sell their grain directly to the end user – will be at the…

Watch: 15 canal locks…shipping maize from Ontario to Ireland

July 27, 2019

Agri-Business

Reporting from Ontario, Canada. A major seaway, the Great Lakes, 15 locks and 183m later the Canadian maize (corn) travelling to Ireland –…

2.64 million tonnes of Canadian grain moved by rail company in April

May 10, 2019

Tillage

Canadian Pacific carried a record-breaking 2.643 million tonnes of Canadian grain and grain products in April 2019. The amount of grain transported by…

What is the world eating?

October 19, 2018

Tillage

Cereals, roots and pulses remain at the top of the world’s dietary choices. However, obesity rates are increasing and 45.9% of the food…

‘We’re going to be looking at a lot of 2t/ac crops’

August 1, 2018

Tillage

The drought has affected all tillage crops this season, but more so in the south-east of the country. A Wexford Irish Farmers’ Association…

‘€200/t minimum for Irish grain’

July 13, 2018

Tillage

The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) has called on grain merchants to offer a minimum of €200/t for Irish feed grain this harvest,…

Grain price: Tariffs taking away from early-June price increase

June 23, 2018

Tillage

Grain price is recovering from a significant drop over the past week. Having climbed and hovered since the beginning of June, prices took…

Grain price: ‘Consumption exceeding production for the first time since 2012’

June 16, 2018

Tillage

One take-home message that stuck with AgriLand on the way back from the Cereals 2018 event in the UK this week was a…

Grain price update: Drought in eastern Europe; harvest kicks off in US

June 8, 2018

Tillage

Futures grain prices remain within a relatively steady range. On Wednesday, they had climbed the scale to last week’s levels. Meanwhile, planting is almost complete…

IGGG poll: 13% of tillage farmers have no spring crops sown

April 29, 2018

Tillage

A survey carried out by the Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG), which took in 100 participants, has shown that 77% of tillage farmers…

It’s unlikely that St. Patrick will ‘turn the stone’ in 2018

March 17, 2018

Opinion

Given the weather forecast for the next few days, I think it’s reasonable to predict that St. Patrick will not be gifting us…

Boortmalt goes back to Stradbally

March 17, 2018

Tillage

Stradbally Town and Country will provide a grain intake for Boortmalt in Co. Laois this year. Growers from the Laois area will be…

EU grain storage capacity increases by 20% in 10-year period

March 14, 2018

Tillage

The EU’s total storage capacity for cereals, oilseed complex and protein crops grew by 20% between 2005 and 2015, according to the findings…

Cereal production increased in 2017 despite drop in acreage

March 12, 2018

Tillage

The estimated value of output from the cereal sector increased by 5.2% last year, when compared with 2016 levels. 2017 output from the…

Tillage focus: ‘We can’t take any more cuts’

February 26, 2018

Tillage

Mark Browne is a tillage farmer from just outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. He farms with his brother Garrett and tillage is the only…

Details of Glanbia’s grain transport allowance announced

February 23, 2018

Tillage

Glanbia has announced details of its transport allowance for 2018. Following the announcement of the company’s harvest grain prices in October, Glanbia stated that…

Global focus: Farming 450,000ha in Russia

October 23, 2017

Tillage

Volga-Donselhozinvest Russia – an agricultural group – farms 450,000ha in Russia. Last week, Richard Valentine Willows outlined the workings of the operation to…

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